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Florence Ogilvy Bell
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British X-ray crystallographer who assisted William Thomas Astbury as his research student while working on her Ph.D. (awarded 1939). While working on her thesis, she took the first photographs of diffraction patterns from DNA fibers, which led to their first hypothetical structure of DNA (though incorrect). During WW II she joined with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
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Science Quotes by Florence Ogilvy Bell (1 quote)
Possibly the most pregnant recent development in molecular biology is the realization that the beginnings of life are closely associated with the interactions of proteins and nucleic acids.
— Florence Ogilvy Bell
'X-ray and Related Studies of the Structure of the Proteins and Nucleic Acids', PhD Thesis, University of Leeds (1939), 63. As quoted in Robert Cecil Olby, The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA (1974), 70.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
