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DR. DOBOTHY WRINCH has been appointed to a research professorship jointly by Smith, Mt. Holyoke and Amherst Colleges, in Massachusetts, to conduct a lecture and seminar course for advanced students on structure problems in the biological sciences. Dr. Wrinch is widely known for her exploratory work in mathematics, physics and biochemistry. During the past six years she has been working as a research fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and has made an extensive study of the chemistry and physics of the proteins, the results of which have been published from time to time in NATURE and in other scientific journals. Her research work on the structure of proteins, especially their two– and three–dimensional patterns, has attracted much attention. A distinctive feature of the new approach to the problem of protein structure which is employed by Dr. Wrinch is that it is based on the study of live proteins, while most previous structural studies have been conducted with dead proteins such as hair and silk, or with proteins which have lost their native configuration. Dr. Wrinch's views on the structure of globular proteins, based on the cyclol hypothesis, have provoked intense controversy, and while they are still by no means generally accepted, the discussion of their implications has provided a valuable demonstration of the interrelations of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.
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Dr. Dorothy Wrinch. Nature 148, 465 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148465b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148465b0