The Other ‘Dark Lady of DNA’?

When physicist Florence Bell first moved to Leeds in 1937, she probably never expected to become a media sensation. But while Bell made headlines simply for being a female scientist, it’s more likely that she would want to be remembered for making the first attempt to solve the structure of DNA, the genetic material. Long before Rosalind Franklin who has been called the ‘dark lady of DNA’, it seems that the tale of the double-helix had another unsung heroine…read more here