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Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish crystallographer and 1st female FRS (died 1971)

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Kathleen Lonsdale

British crystallographer and activist (1903–1971)

Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was an Irish 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…
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Royal Society

British learned society

The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, recognising excellence in science,…
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January 28

Day of the year

January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 337 days remain until the end of the year.
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