Other Publications

‘DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher’s discovery of nuclein in its original context.’ The British Journal for the History of Science (2021), 54: 99-107.

‘Florence Bell – the ‘Housewife’ with X-ray vision.’ Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (2021),

‘Fifty Pence Story? With Thanks to Simon Armitage.’ History of Science Society Newsletter (2020), 49: 1–2.

‘Florence Bell – the other ‘dark lady of DNA” – before Rosalind Franklin, the story of DNA had another unsung heroine…

‘Mendel’s Martyrs’ – during the Cold War, an interest in the work of a 19th century abbot and his research into pea plants was enough to land Soviet scientists in prison…

The other great Leeds M&S story…‘In Praise of Wool: The Development of Partition Chromatography and its Under-Appreciated Impact on Molecular Biology’, (2019). Endeavour, Vol. 43

‘Clearing the Mist Around Mendel’, (2018). History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 40: 35

‘Florence Bell, an unsung physics and DNA pioneer,’ letter to New Scientist magazine, 1^st Dec 2018

‘Many Scientists Played a Part in DNA Advances’, a letter to ‘The Times’ of London, 2^nd June 2018

‘Wool Structures’, a letter to ‘The Times’, 20^th July 2017

‘Thinking Outside the Black Box: The case of Marshall Nirenberg and Oswald Avery’, (2016). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 60: 97-101.

“William Astbury and the biological significance of nucleic acids, 1938-1951” (2011) Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Vol. 42: 119-128.