William Astbury blue plaque

Leeds, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom

William T. Astbury FRS lived here from 1928 to 1961. His brilliant research at the University of Leeds deduced the chemical composition of hair and wool fibres by X-ray diffraction. In 1938 his team was the first to predict a molecular structure for DNA, which contains the hereditary instuctions pre

sent in all living organisms. 1898-1961

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