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Robert Corey
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<h2 id="academic-training">Academic training</h2> <p>A childhood <a href="/facts/Polio/6dYyXUhE">polio</a> survivor, Corey received his undergraduate degree from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Pittsburgh/U3lxG2L1">University of Pittsburgh</a>, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from <a href="/facts/Cornell_University/FGyXuXeI">Cornell University</a> (Marsh, p. 52-53). </p> <h2 id="the-findings-of--helix-and--sheet">The findings of α-helix and β-sheet</h2> <p>At <a href="/facts/Caltech/3FPcp7BL">Caltech</a>, the trio (Pauling, Corey and Branson) published a series of articles in the <a href="/facts/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences/w75CThX0">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>The most revolutionary of the articles in <a href="/facts/PNAS/w75CThX0">PNAS</a> is the one written on February 28, 1951.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> That date was also Pauling's 50th birthday. It was called "The Structure of Proteins: Two Hydrogen-Bonded Helical Configurations of the Polypeptide Chain". In the paper, one odd thing is that the trio diagrammed the α-helix as a left-handed helix, although it is really a right-handed one. Another odd thing in the paper is that the 3(10) helix is almost never mentioned, although it is very common, while the γ-helix, which was another focus of the paper, is almost never found in nature. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/CPK_coloring/vaubNxqx">CPK coloring</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Corey-Pauling_rules/abMcoBsG">Corey-Pauling rules</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.pnas.org/site/classics/classics1.xhtml">The Protein Papers</a> by Christen Brownlee, in PNAS at 100: Classics of the Scientific Literature, special issue of the <a href="/facts/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences/w75CThX0">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5859&page=51">Robert Brainard Corey</a> by Richard E. Marsh, Biographical Memoirs V.72 (1997) of the <a href="/facts/United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences/M3oePVeG">National Academy of Sciences</a></li> <li><a href="http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/blood/people/corey.html">Key Participants: Robert B. Corey</a> – <i>It's in the Blood! A Documentary History of Linus Pauling, Hemoglobin, and Sickle Cell Anemia</i>; and <a href="http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/corey.html">Key Participants: Robert B. Corey</a> – <i>Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History</i></li> <li><a href="http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/corey-robert-b.pdf">National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Pauling, L., and R. B. Corey. 1950. Two hydrogen-bonded spiral configurations of the polypeptide chain. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 72:5349. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Pauling, L., and R. B. Corey. 1951. The structure of synthetic polypeptides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 37:241-50. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Pauling, L., and R. B. Corey. 1951. The pleated sheet, a new layer configuration of polypeptide chains. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 37:2451-56. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Pauling, L., and R. B. Corey. 1953. A proposed structure for the nucleic acids. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39:84-97. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Pauling, L., R. B. Corey, and H. R. Branson. 1951. The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chains. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 37:205-10. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Pauling, L., R. B. Corey, and H. R. Branson. 1951. The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chains. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 37:205-10. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>