Dorothy Wrinch

Dorothy Wrinch
Dorothy Wrinch
Dorothy Maud Wrinch em 1921
Nascimento Dorothy Maud Wrinch
12 de setembro de 1894
Rosário
Morte 11 de fevereiro de 1976 (81 anos)
Falmouth
Cidadania Reino Unido
Cônjuge John William Nicholson, Otto C. Glaser
Alma mater
Ocupação matemática, filósofa, bioquímica, química
Distinções
  • Membro da Sociedade Americana de Física
Empregador(a) University College London, Universidade de Cambridge, Universidade de Oxford, Universidade Johns Hopkins, Smith College

Dorothy Maud Wrinch (Rosário, Argentina, 12 de setembro de 1894 – Falmouth, Massachusetts, 11 de fevereiro de 1976) foi uma matemática e bioquímica teórica britânica nascida na Argentina. Conhecida por sua tentativa de deduzir a estrutura da proteína usando princípios matemáticos.

Foi palestrante do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Zurique em 1932.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin escreveu no obituário de Wrinch que ela foi "a brilliant and controversial figure who played a part in the beginnings of much of present research in molecular biology."[1] Em um nível mais pessoal, Crowfoot Hodgkin escreveu, "I like to think of her as she was when I first knew her, gay, enthusiastic and adventurous, courageous in face of much misfortune and very kind."[2]

Publicações selecionadas

  • "On Some Aspects of the Theory of Probability," Philosophical Magazine, 38, (1919), 715–731. (com Harold Jeffreys)
  • The Retreat from Parenthood London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner 1930 (como Jean Ayling)
  • Fourier transforms and structure factors; American Society for X-Ray and Electron Diffraction. 1946
  • Chemical aspects of the structure of small peptides; an introduction. 1960.
  • Chemical aspects of polypeptide chain structures and the cyclol theory 1965.
  • "Selected papers of Dorothy Wrinch, from the Sophia Smith Collection," in "Structures of Matter and Patterns in Science, inspired by the work and life of Dorothy Wrinch, 1894–1976, The Proceedings of a Symposium held at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 28–30 September 1977, Schenkman Publishing Company, 1980.

Referências

  1. ↑ «New York Times». 15 de fevereiro de 1976 
  2. ↑ Crowfoot Hodgkin, Dorothy (8 de abril de 1976). «Dorothy Wrinch». Nature. 260: 564. doi:10.1038/260564a0 

Leitura adicional

  • P. G. Abir-Am, 'Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch', In Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives, Women in Science 1789–1979, P. G. Abir-Am & D. Outram (Eds), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ, 1987; pp 239–280.
  • Mary R. S. Creese, ‘Wrinch, Dorothy Maud (1894–1976)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Accessed 11 July 2005.
  • Charles W. Carey, Jr., "Wrinch, Dorothy Maud"; American National Biography Online, February 2000.
  • John Jones, "Nicholson, John William (1881–1955)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • David Howie, Interpreting Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2002. (Chapter 4 describes the Wrinch-Jeffreys collaboration.)
  • Marjorie Senechal, "A Prophet without Honor: Dorothy Wrinch, Scientist, 1894–1976," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Vol. 68 (1977), 18–23.
  • Marjorie Senechal, I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science, Oxford University Press, New York, 2013.
  • Charles Tanford & Jacqueline Reynolds, Nature's Robots: A History of Proteins, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. (Chapters 10 and 12 discuss Wrinch's cyclol theory.)
  • Patrick Coffey, Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-532134-0 (Prologue, Chapter 9, and the Epilogue discuss Wrinch).

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