Astbury
Proper noun
Meaning
Astbury (plural Astburys)
A surname from Old English.
Phrases with the word
Examples
After the first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s, William Astbury had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3.4 angström (0.34 nanometre) intervals in DNA.
Some well-respected scientists such as William Astbury doubted that covalent bonds were strong enough to hold such long molecules together; they feared that thermal agitations would shake such long molecules asunder.
Low fat spreads were developed at the University of Leeds (in conjunction with Unilever ) in the 1980s, and in the 1930s William Astbury 's x-ray diffraction experiments at the university started the road to the discovery of the double helix structure.
Striders were out in force on Saturday at the weekly Parkrun at Astbury Mere.
Discovery In the early 1930s, William Astbury showed that there were drastic changes in the X-ray fiber diffraction of moist wool or hair fibers upon significant stretching.
In 1937, William Astbury produced the first X-ray diffraction patterns that showed that DNA had a regular structure.