Florence Bell (scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Florence Bell (scientist)

X-ray crystallographer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1913

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 23-Nov-2000

Profession: scientist, biochemist, crystallographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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".