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   I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science

   Marjorie Senechal

   The story of a pioneering and controversial female mathematician who helped shed light on the molecular structure of proteins, was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Science degree from Oxford University, and embodied the cross-pollination of disciplines two decades before C. P. Snow’s famous lament about the “two cultures”:

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