The man who almost discovered the double helix
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Asprey's Work With DNA
Asprey wrote to the war office begging them that she'd be allowed to stay in his lab. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. University of Leeds kept her position open, hoping that she'd come back. But basically bigger forces than science had intervened in her life. And that was pretty much the end of Florence Bell and DNA.
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