Books on History
The book on the left covers history since the ancient Greeks, when all people could do was look at the shapes of different crystals. It was not possible to measure the positions of atoms within the unit cell until the technique using X-ray diffraction was invented in the early 20th century.
The Book on the right was issued freely to schools by the Shell education service in 1998, one of a series of booklets, Kathleen Lonsdale and Dorothy Hodgkin had leaflets to themselves.
This leaflet 'Achieving the Balance' had shorter texts about Rosalind Franklin, Caroline Herschel, Margaret Burbridge, Daphne Jackson, Madam Curie, Hertha Aytron and Lise Meitner.
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