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IT is announced in the Oxford University Gazette of November 6, that the curators of the University Chest have been authorised by Congregation to receive from the Rockefeller Foundation a grant of £500 a year for five years for the purposes of research in the application of mathematical analysis to biological problems, to be conducted by Dr. Dorothy Wrinch. Apparently this grant is to enable Dr. Wrinch to continue and develop her researches into relationships between chromosomes and protein aggregates which have been the subject of several notable contributions, three of which appeared in NATURE during the past year (134, 978; 135, 788; 136, 68). She graduated at Cambridge in 1916 and was a wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. Since then she has had a distinguished career in teaching and research, having been successively lecturer in the Department of Pure Mathematics, University College, London; Yarrow scientific research fellow and Bertha Ayrton fellow of Girton College, Cambridge;and lecturer in mathematics and Susette Taylor fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. While holding the two last-named fellowships in 1931-34 she spent part of the time at the Universities of Vienna, Paris, and Prague. So long ago as 1921, Dr. Wrinch contributed a paper to NATURE, with Dr. Harold Jeffreys, on “The Relation of Geometry to Einstein's Theory of Gravitation”; and among many other subjects of wide interest with which she has dealt in papers to scientific societies are the theory of probability, principles of scientific inquiry, relations of science and philosophy, and boundary problems of mathematical physics. Her recent work on the structure and behaviour of chromosomes in relation to protein aggregates is a new field of inquiry from which further results of high importance may be confidently anticipated.
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Chromosome Behaviour and Protein Pattern. Nature 136, 786 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136786b0
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