List of Famous people named Kathleen
Kathleen Wendy Elizabeth Denny
Kathleen Shackleton
Kathleen Shackleton MBE was an Irish portrait painter and journalist.
Kathleen Hazel Coningsby Smith
Kathleen Isabella Hawkins
Kathleen Carrey
Kathleen Percy Cummins
Kathleen Olga Riddell
Kathleen Mary Hall
Kathleen Vanessa Gibbs
Kathleen Lonsdale
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale was an Irish pacifist, prison reformer and crystallographer. 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. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1945, first woman tenured professor at University College London, first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography, and first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.