The Boston Globe, March 22nd, 2002
In 1951, as the nation awoke to the Cold War and a new age of nuclear terror, the country's top scientists recruited Rose Ring Carroll to assist in unraveling the dense mysteries of radio wave propagation - a key element in building the nation's first long- range nuclear detection systems. "She was an extraordinary talent," said her nephew, James Ring of Providence. "She had a unique skill with numbers." Dr. Carroll, 78, who died Sunday after a brief illness, also taught mathematics at Boston College, helped assemble the department's computer science curriculum, and was chairwoman of the mathe...
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