Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Kathleen (Yardley) Lonsdale DSc. FR

  • Kathleen (Yardley) Lonsdale DSc., FR

    JMS PearceHull, England Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971) (Fig 1) like her contemporary Dorothy Hodgkin was one of the women pioneers in a man’s world of professional scientists.1 She developed original techniques in X-ray diffraction of crystals to determine the structure of a molecule. This led to studies of the benzene ring, structure of drugs, and investigations…