Florence Bell notebook and thesis
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Florence Bell notebook and thesis
Classmark: SC MS Florence Bell
Creator(s): Bell, Florence Ogilvy (1913-2000)
Date(s): 1939-1941
Size and medium: 2 items
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/650476
Description
This artificial collection groups together material within Special Collections created by the scientist Florence Bell. Contains: Florence Bell's notebook made during her time at Leeds University where she researched the atomic structure of collagen; Florence Bell's PhD thesis, 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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