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Dorothy Maud Wrinch

British-American mathematician and biochemist
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
Sept. 12, 1894, Rosario, Arg.
Died:
Feb. 11, 1976, Woods Hole, Mass., U.S. (aged 81)
Subjects Of Study:
amino acid
chromosome
protein
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Dorothy Maud Wrinch (born Sept. 12, 1894, Rosario, Arg.—died Feb. 11, 1976, Woods Hole, Mass., U.S.) British American mathematician and biochemist who contributed to the understanding of the structure of proteins. Shortly after her birth in Argentina, where her British father was employed as an engineer, Wrinch’s family returned to England. Wrinch grew up in Surbiton, a village near London. She won a scholarship in 1913 to attend a residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied mathematics and philosophy. In particular, she was strongly influenced by mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy and philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell, with ...(100 of 770 words)

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