Papers, 1919-1975.

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Papers, 1919-1975.

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Personal and professional correspondence and notebooks, relating to Wrinch's research and views on crystal structure, cyclols, peptides, mineral twins, x-ray methods, B-12, insulin, viruses and polyhedra; travel diaries, lectures and outlines (1965) for Smith College courses, symposium and conference reports and records, models, memorabilia, articles by colleagues and contemporaries, and bibliography of Wrinch's works; and letters and writings of her daughter, Pamela Wrinch Schenkman (1927-1975), political scientist. Wrinch's correspondents include David Harker, Irving Langmuir, E. H. Neville, Linus Pauling, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

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American Institute of Physics

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Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994

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Rockefeller Foundation

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Wrinch, Dorothy, 1894-1976

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Crystallographer, biochemist, mathematician, and physicist. From the description of Papers, 1919-1975. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 79752694 Dorothy Wrinch with students at Smith College, 1965-1966 Dorothy Maud Wrinch was a chemist, biologist, and physicist most famous for her development of the cyclol theory. Throughout her career, she used her background in mathematics to apply math to biology, and was an important early fi...