X-ray and related studies of the structure of the proteins and nucleic acids
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Type of record: Archive
Title: X-ray and related studies of the structure of the proteins and nucleic acids
Classmark: MS 2229
Original reference: Theses EBL S BEL
Date(s): 1939
Size and medium: 1 item
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/y2fcgcvq
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/650413
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Florence Bell's PhD thesis, awarded by the University of Leeds in 1939.
Biography or history
Florence Ogilvy Bell (1913-2000) was a scientist who helped contribute to the discovery of the structure of DNA. Bell studied at Girton College, Cambridge before working in the Cavendish Laboratories and the University of Manchester. She arrived in Leeds in 1937 to work in the laboratory of William Astbury, physicist and Professor of Molecular Biology. Whilst completing the work for her PhD she took the first photographs of diffraction patterns from DNA fibres.
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