Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Papers

  • Kathleen (Yardley) Lonsdale DSc., FR

    JMS Pearce Hull, England   Fig 1. Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley) by Elliott & Fry. 1996. National Portrait gallery. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 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…