Hanson at Bedford College
’'Hyoid apparatus of frog’ drawn by Hanson (1944-1948) Jean Hanson was born at Newhall, Derbyshire, in November 1919 and was educated at Burton on Trent, where she was inspired to study zoology and botany and also acquired what became a life long love of music and literature.
Hanson entered Bedford College London in 1938 where she studied under the eminent zoologist, Professor Harold Munro Fox.
Whilst teaching at Birmingham University in the 1920s and 30s, Fox, along with his contemporaries, John Randall and Michael Abercrombie, began to recognise the potential value of cross-disciplinary collaboration between physicists and biologists in what would later become the new science of biophysics.
The most famous discovery resulting from this collaboration has been that of the structure of DNA, and an appreciation of this was to profoundly influence Hanson's experimental methodology in her professional career at King's.
In this exhibition
- South Africa in the nineteenth century
- Declaration of War 1899
- Arrival in South Africa
- On campaign
- The heat of battle
- Climate and landscape
- Peace: the Treaty of Vereeniging 1902
- The pioneering work of Professor Jean Hanson, 1919-1973
- Early career
- Hanson at Bedford College
- Hanson during the 1940s
- Biophysics at King's College
- Hanson's research on muscles
- Work with Dr Hugh Huxley
- The sliding filament hypothesis
- Hanson’s later career and legacy
- Early career