Irene Manton was a pioneer of electron microscopy.
She produced the first diagrammatic reconstruction of the 9+2 microtubular structure of the #cilium in 1952. When she showed her beautiful micrographs at international meetings, the audience would cheer and break into applause.
And she mortgaged her house to buy an electron microscope!
https://www.embrc.eu/newsroom/news/irene-manton-algal-cell-biologist-and-her-electron-microscope
