I died for beauty Dorothy Wrinch and the cultures of science
"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...
| Main Author: | Senechal, Marjorie. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2013.
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Table of 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 Pleasure
- 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
- 5. 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 factors
- 20. Amherst College Wife
- Part VI. I Died for Beauty. 21. The Sequel
- 22. Strange Doings at Sandoz
- 23. Swan Song
- 24. Epilogue.