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Misspelling, should be Willstätter, not Willstõtter "Richard Martin Willstätter (13 August 1872 – 3 August 1942) was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Willst%C3%A4tter

See a blog post featuring this photograph at THE BIGGER PICTURE.

What a fun picture of Mr. Pauling! I've actually never seen this one before. I assume he is trying to demonstrating either the alpha-helix on a peptide chain or DNA using the rope here. His DNA model was wrong, but he got the Nobel Prize for solving the alpha-helix.

My chemistry professor, long time ago, was a fan of Dr. Pauling. Nice picture.

Cute picture. Copied to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus_Pauling_with_rope.jpg Too bad we don't know more about the photo... Thanks for posting these!

Thanks, Pete. I'll consult my knowledgeable colleagues here at SI Archives and see what we can dig up! Susannah Smithsonian Institution Archives

Prussian-born Nernst (1864-1941) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1920): nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1920/nern... Here he is as an older man: Given the later portrait, it seems unlikely this image was made in 1941.

Thank you for taking the time to comment on our photo! Since these photos were acquired from various print dealers by our donor, Bern Dibner, in the 1940’s, our records for the collection are a bit sparse. Your comments have been extremely valuable in helping us update information for this image. Since the exact date of this image is still unknown, we've changed the date to read "Prior to 1941".