RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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structure of muscle has unexpectedly turned out
to be closely analogous to that structure previously
discovered in hair, nail, and other horny
tissue. Preliminary experiments on nerve tissue
have indicated that this technique is applicable
here also. Professor Astbury has completed a
new high power x-ray tube specially designed
for the examination of living materials; and it
is hoped that this, in connection with an x-ray
microcamera which he has designed, will permit
him to undertake investigations on chromosome
structure.
University of Oxford
Theoretical Biology
The sum of $12,750 has been appropriated to
the University of Oxford for research in the
application of mathematical analyses to biological
problems by Dr. Dorothy Wrinch during
the five-year period beginning October 1, 1935.
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For more than ten years Dr. Wrinch has been an
important contributor to the research literature
of mathematics and mathematical physics. During
the past five years she has been explaining
the possibilities of application of the techniques
of mathematics and mathematical physics to
certain problems in biology, notably those of
cytology, genetics, histology, and
physiology.
Her present work is concentrated on the analysis
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