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Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
(28 Jan 1903 - 1 Apr 1971)
British crystallographer.
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Science Quotes by Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1)
It makes me feel both proud and rather humble that it shall be called Lonsdaleite. Certainly the name seems appropriate since the mineral only occurs in very small quantities (perhaps rare would be too flattering) and it is generally rather mixed up!
Letter to Clifford Frondel, who had named a meteoritic form of diamond after Lonsdale (a petite person).
Letter to Clifford Frondel, who had named a meteoritic form of diamond after Lonsdale (a petite person).
— Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
Quoted in Maureen M. Julian, 'Women in Crystallography', in G. Kass-Simon and P. Farnes (eds.), Women of Science: Righting the Record (1990), 356.
