CHEMIST

Kathleen Lonsdale

1903 - 1971

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Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (née Yardley; 28 January 1903 – 1 April 1971) was a British crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. She proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kathleen Lonsdale has received more than 175,754 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Kathleen Lonsdale is the 421st most popular chemist (down from 417th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 143rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Irish Chemist.

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  • 3.11

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Kathleen Lonsdale ranks 421 out of 602. Before her are Hans Tropsch, Maud Menten, John Tukey, Andrés Manuel del Río, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Jeremias Benjamin Richter. After her are Michael Grätzel, Peter Atkins, Eric Betzig, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Theodor Curtius, and Nikolay Beketov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Kathleen Lonsdale ranks 171. Before her are Uichiro Hatta, Ella Maillart, Felice Bonetto, Corrado Bafile, Hans Hedtoft, and Gʻafur Gʻulom. After her are Fernando Paternoster, Natallia Arsiennieva, Joseph Cornell, Barbara Hepworth, André Maschinot, and Lili Kraus. Among people deceased in 1971, Kathleen Lonsdale ranks 117. Before her are Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Henri Tomasi, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Josef Košťálek, and Armando Picchi. After her are Nikola Kotkov, Hiratsuka Raichō, Dimitrios Loundras, Carlos P. Garcia, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and Joseph Helffrich.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Kathleen Lonsdale ranks 135 out of 549. Before her are Aidan Gillen (1968), Barry Fitzgerald (1888), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Alan Cunningham (1887), Pat Cox (1952), and Sally Oldfield (1947). After her are Yvonne Farrell (1951), Peter Brown (1935), Aphex Twin (1971), John Boyne (1971), John Sealy Townsend (1868), and John Bruton (1947).

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Among CHEMISTS In Ireland

Among chemists born in Ireland, Kathleen Lonsdale ranks 4. Before her are Robert Boyle (1627), William C. Campbell (1930), and J. D. Bernal (1901). After her are Peter Woulfe (1727).

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