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Florence Ogilvy Bell (1 May 1913 – 23 November 2000), later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in Nature that described the structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies".
Jan 28, 2022 · When the Yorkshire Evening News reported on an address delivered by 25-year-old physicist Florence Bell at a scientific conference held in Leeds in 1939, it wasn’t her science that made the...
- Kersten Hall
Feb 24, 2021 · Today Bell is largely unknown except to a small band of academic historians of science, yet in her day she had become quite a media star. The reason for her fame would raise more than a few eyebrows today, however.
- Kersten Hall
- 2021
Jun 17, 2022 · This is the story of a woman who was pivotal to the discovery of DNA. A name lost to time but is now started to be recognised for her pioneering work. Here to tell her tale is Kersten Hall, a science historian based at the University of Leeds, and Julia Ravey.
Nov 23, 2000 · Florence Bell was a physicist who made the very first X-ray studies of DNA, a complex molecule that contains the genetic blue-print for building and maintaining an organism, and showed that this method could be used to reveal its regular, ordered structure.
- London, United Kingdom
Feb 24, 2021 · Far less well known, however, is the name of Florence Bell, the crystallographer who first showed that X-ray analysis could be used to reveal the regular, ordered structure of DNA. This paper explores her life and work, the legacy of which is ‘Photo 51’, the famous X-ray image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling in 1952 ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Almost 80 years ago, Florence Bell quietly laid the foundations for one of the biggest landmarks in 20th century science: the discovery of the structure of DNA. But when she died on November 23 2000, her occupation on her death certificate was recorded as “housewife”. Decades later, female researchers are still being sidelined.
