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Kersten Hall

Trained as a molecular biologist, Kersten Hall now writes about science as a visiting fellow at the Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. His most recent book, Insulin—The Crooked Timber, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. Learn more about his work at kerstenhall.com.

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What do shark fins, wool, and DNA have in common? Physicist Florence Bell studied them all with X-ray crystallography.