Tag: Limerick
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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…
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Medical limericks
A girl called Jane took an airplane to Spain,And developed abdominal pain.She went straight to bed and drank something red,And twelve hours later was dead. There was a young man called RimpleWho squeezed a very large pimple.It caused him much pain and spread to the brainAnd left him alive but quite simple. A limerick is…