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- Title
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903-1971): Her Early Career in X-ray Crystallography.
- Authors
Wilson, Jennifer
- Abstract
Kathleen Yardley started her career in X-ray crystallography under the directorship of Sir William Bragg first at University College London (UCL) and then at the Royal Institution (RI). She was part of a team of young researchers who were keen to discover this new world of molecular and atomic patterns. After her marriage, now Kathleen Lonsdale, she left the RI and moved to the University of Leeds. Whilst at Leeds Lonsdale sought Bragg's support and advice, evidence of which is provided by their correspondence during this period. After returning to London, Lonsdale, now the mother of two daughters, returned to Bragg's team. During the next fourteen years (1932-1946) she established herself as one of the prominent researchers within the rapidly expanding field of X-ray crystallography and was one of the first women to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
- Subjects
LONSDALE, Kathleen, Dame, 1903-1971; BRAGG, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971; X-ray crystallography; UNIVERSITY College, London; ROYAL Institution of Great Britain; UNIVERSITY of Leeds
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 3, p265
- ISSN
0308-0188
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/0308018815Z.000000000117