Florence Bell (scientist)
Florence Ogilvy Bell | |
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in the Yorkshire Evening News in 23 March 1939 | |
| Born | 1 May 1913 London, England |
| Died | 23 November 2000 |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Leeds University of Manchester |
| Thesis | X-ray and related studies of the structure of the proteins and nucleic acids |
| Doctoral advisor | William Astbury |
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".