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Author:   Marjorie Senechal (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Smith College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780199732593

ISBN 10:   0199732590
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   20 December 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I Dorothy Wrinch Chapter 1. Prologue Chapter 2. Culture clash at Cold Spring Harbor Chapter 3. Symmetry Festival Chapter 4. Dot Part II Logics Chapter 5. The Wrangler Chapter 6. Dear Mr. Russell Chapter 7. The Summation of Pleasures Chapter 8. Scientific method Part III Biology in Transition Chapter 9. The Spicules of Sponges Chapter 10. Homes are Hell Chapter 11. Metamorphoses Chapter 12. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Notes and References for Part III Part IV Proteins and the Imagination Chapter 13. Hornet Buzz Chapter 14. The Cyclol Model Chapter 15. What Is She Doing Here? Chapter 16. Linus and Dorothy, the Opera, with Talkback Part V The Rosetta Stone of the Solid State Chapter 17. Crystals Chapter 18. X-rays and Insulin Chapter 19. Structure factors Chapter 20. Amherst College Wife Part VI I Died for Beauty Chapter 21. The Sequel Chapter 22. Strange Doings at Sandoz Chapter 23. Swan Song Chapter 24. Epilogue Cast of Characters Appendix Acknowledgments Notes and References Index

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<br> Senechal draws from scholarly archives and her own experience working with Wrinch to draw a portrait of this complicated, intriguing, and frequently overlooked polymath. [Readers] who persevere will discover a 'scary smart' scientist, mother, teacher, and feminist whose 'life was her work, [and] her work her life.' -- Publisher's Weekly<br><p><br>

It is tremendous that Senechal has excavated this story. She offers a gripping portrait of an era and of a scientist whose complications acquire a tragic glamour. It is a cautionary tale for which we must supply the moral ourselves. Philip Ball, Nature

Author Information

Marjorie Senechal is the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology, Smith College, and Co-Editor of The Mathematical Intelligencer.

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