biography
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Lonsdale, Dame Kathleen
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née Yardley
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1903–71)
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| biography:
| Crystallographer, born in Newbridge, Co Kildare, E Ireland. The family came to Britain in 1908 and she studied physics at Bedford College, London, and spent the next 20 years in the research team of William Bragg based at the Royal Institution. She worked at University College London, as professor of chemistry and head of the department of crystallography (1946–68). From the 1920s she applied X-ray crystal diffraction to determine chemical structures. In 1945 the Royal Society agreed to elect women fellows, and she became the first female FRS. She was created a dame in 1956. |
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