# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/florence-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:14:52.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/florence-bell"
name: "Florence Bell"
slug: "florence-bell"
description: "Florence Ogilvy Bell, later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an\nX-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\"."
tagline: "British X-ray crystallographer (1913-2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Florence_Bell_in_the_Yorkshire_Evening_News_in_23_March_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1913-05-01"
deathDate: "2000-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674586666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bell_(Biochemikerin)"
    title: "Florence Bell (Biochemikerin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bell"
    title: "Florence Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87_%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B8%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7)"
    title: "فلورنسا بيل (عالمه بلورات من المملكه المتحده لبريطانيا العظمى و ايرلاندا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bell"
    title: "Florence Bell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bell_(scientist)"
    title: "Florence Bell (scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Bell_(scientifique)"
    title: "Florence Bell (scientifique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52581420"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump