Florence Bell died unrecognized for her DNA contributions—decades on, female researchers are still being sidelined

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s ironic that the article doesn’t explain what she did to discover the structure of DNA.

  Wikipedia has a better breakdown of her efforts.

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• agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For those that don’t know or didn’t remember like me:

  Almost 80 years ago, Florence Bell quietly laid the foundations for one of the biggest landmarks in 20th century science: the discovery of the structure of DNA. But when she died on November 23 2000, her occupation on her death certificate was recorded as “housewife.”

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