Career
After graduating, Rolf continued to work with Levene at the Rockefeller Institute, first in the Department of Chemotherapy and later in the Department of Organic Chemistry, eventually attaining the rank of Associate. From 1919 to 1927 she published 16 scholarly journal papers mostly in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Her research was mostly laboratory studies on biochemical compound: lecithin and cephalin.
In 1927, Rolf left her academic work for reasons of health and family problems. She took leave to study mathematics and atomic physics at the Swiss Technical University in Zurich and was later to develop Structural Integration. She authored a total of 16 academic papers in biochemistry from 1919 to 1927. She also published two papers in scholarly journals on structural integration and had an h-index of 10 with a total number of 299 citations (February, 2007).
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