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I Died for Beauty

Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science by Marjorie Senechal

By Science News

Dorothy Wrinch was best known for losing a feud with Linus Pauling over protein structure, but this biography delves far deeper into her life and contributions to math, physics and more.

Oxford Univ., 2012, 300 p., $34.95

A version of this article appears in the February 23, 2013 issue of Science News.

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