Robert Brainard Corey (August 19, 1897 – April 23, 1971) was an American biochemist, mostly known for his role in discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet with Linus Pauling.
Their discoveries were remarkably correct, with even the bond lengths being accurate until about 40 years later.
At Caltech, the trio (Pauling, Corey and Branson) published a series of articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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.