What is Kathleen Lonsdale?
'''Dame Kathleen Lonsdale''' <small>[[Order of the British Empire|DBE]] [[The Royal Society|FRS]]</small> (née Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was a British [[Pacifism|pacifist]], prison reformer and [[Crystallography|crystallographer]]. She got her [[Academic degree|degree]] from [[University College London]] in 1924, and was awarded a [[doctorate]] in 1934. She used [[X-ray crystallography|X-ray diffraction]] to work out the structure of lots of [[Chemical substance|chemicals]], and used X-rays to study crystals. Lonsdale was the first woman to be made a [[professor]] at University College London (1949), one of the first women to be made a [[The Royal Society|Fellow of the Royal Society]] (1945), and was made a [[Order of the British Empire|dame]] in 1956. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lonsdale, Kathleen}} [[Category:1903 births]] [[Category:1971 deaths]] [[Category:British biophysicists]] [[Category:Alumni of University College London]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]] [[Category:Knights and Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]]