Kathleen Lonsdale
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 53 years ago |
Date of birth | January 28,1903 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Newbridge |
Ireland | |
Date of died | April 1,1971 |
Died | London |
United Kingdom | |
Job | Physicist |
Chemist | |
Crystallographer | |
Books | The Christian Life Lived Experimentally: An Anthology of the Writings of Kathleen Lonsdale |
Quakers Talk to Sixth Formers: A Series of Broadcasts | |
Crystals and X-rays | |
Science, Religion and the Student | |
Awards | Davy Medal |
Fellow of the Royal Society | |
Nationality | British |
Known for | X-ray crystallography |
Education | University College London |
Bedford College, London | |
Royal Holloway | |
Ilford County High School | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 514530 |
Kathleen Lonsdale Life story
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS was an Irish-born British pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene.