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Linus Pauling: Discovering Protein In the 1950’s, Linus Pauling became known as the founder of molecular biology due to his discovery of the spiral structure of proteins (Taton, 1964). Pauling’s discoveries contributed to Watson and Crick’s breakthrough of the DNA double helix. Pauling made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms and develop techniques to help prevent the inheritance of genetic disorders. In 1922, Pauling studied a technique known as X-ray crystallography “which makes it possible to determine