| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 300 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Summary |
Dorothy Wrinch, a complicated and ultimately tragic figure, is remembered today for her much publicized feud with Linus Pauling over the shape of proteins, known as 'the cyclol controversy'. Pauling emerged victorious and is now seen as one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists. History has proven less kind to Wrinch. Although some of Wrinch's theories did not pass the test of time, her contributions to the fields of Darwinism, probability and statistics, quantum mechanics, x-ray diffraction, and computer science were anything but inconsequential |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Wrinch, Dorothy, 1894-1976.
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Mathematicians -- Argentina -- Biography.
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Biochemists -- Argentina -- Biography.
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Women mathematicians -- Biography.
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Women biochemists -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199910830 |
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9780190254353 ebook |
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