I died for beauty Dorothy Wrinch and the cultures of science

Author/Creator:

Senechal, Marjorie

Publication/Creation:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

I died for beauty Dorothy Wrinch and the cultures of science / Marjorie Senechal

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Wrinch, Dorothy,1894-1976
Mathematicians--Argentina--Biography
Biochemists--Argentina--Biography
Women mathematicians--Biography
Women biochemists--Biography

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Cover; Contents; PART I: Dorothy Wrinch; 1 Prologue; 2 Culture Clash at Cold Spring Harbor; 3 Symmetry Festival; 4 Dot; PART II: Logics; 5 The Wrangler; 6 Dear Mr. Russell; 7 The Summation of Pleasures; 8 Scientific Method; PART III: Biology in Transition; 9 The Spicules of Sponges; 10 Homes Are Hell; 11 Metamorphoses; 12 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest; PART IV: Proteins and the Imagination; 13 Buzz; 14 The Cyclol Model; 15 What Is She Doing Here?; 16 "Linus and Dorothy" the Opera, with Talkback; PART V: The Rosetta Stone of the Solid State; 17 Crystals; 18 X-rays and Insulin
19 Structure Factors20 Amherst College Wife; PART VI: I Died for Beauty; 21 The Sequel; 22 Strange Doings at Sandoz; 23 Swan Song; 24 Epilogue; Cast of Characters; Appendix; Acknowledgments; References and Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Summary:

In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with Wrinch and archives in the United States, Canada, and England, Marjorie Senechal explores the life and work of this provocative, scintillating mind. Senechal portrays a woman who was learned, restless, imperious, exacting, critical, witty, and kind. A young disciple of Bertrand Russell while at Cambridge, the f

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

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Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936953813502486

ISBN:

0-19-025435-1
1-283-71728-X
0-19-987579-0

OCLC Number:

818851574