St. Mary's church, Ambleside rises through morning mist

St. Mary's church, Ambleside rises up through morning mists - one the one day this week that it wasn't raining!

St. Mary's church, Ambleside where scientist Florence Bell who first showed that X-rays could be used to reveal structure of DNA was married in Dec 1942

Lake District connection to #DNA story? Yes(sort of) - Dec 1942, scientist #FlorenceBell was married in St Mary's church, #Ambleside (shown here) before emigrating with new husband to USA…alas never to resume groundbreaking work she had begun on DNA structure whilst working in Leeds 5 years earlier…

Had they still been around, am sure that, as keen cricket fans, Leeds based scientists #WilliamAstbury & #FlorenceBell would have taken a break from work on #DNA structure & wool to be at #Headingley yesterday for victory in #ENGvsIND Test Match...

Portrait of physicist Florence Bell (1913-2000) who first showed that X-rays could be used to reveal regular, ordered structure of DNA

And as she was reputed to be a bit handy with a #cricket bat (as well as X-ray crystallography), I reckon that physicist #FlorenceBell who made first X-ray studies of DNA structure in Astbury’s lab in 1938 might well have joined him at #EnglandvsIndia #testmatch in #Headingley today