Talk presented at the Joint Meeting 4 March 2015 of the 'History of Physics' and 'Women in Physics' Groups.
Click here for books on early History of crystallography, or
Here for an Introduction to Crystallographers
or here for a bibliography about the people.
The pages below are mostly just a time line for each woman, listed in order of date of death.
name | born | died |
Rosalind Elsie Franklin | 25 July 1920 London | 16 April 1958 London |
Kathleen Lonsdale | 28 January 1903 Dublin | 1 April 1971 England |
Dorothy Hodgkin | 12 May 1910 Cairo, Egypt | 29 July 1994 Ilmington, Oxfordshire |
Helen Megaw | 1 June 1907 Dublin | 26 Feb 2002 Ballycastle, County Antrim |
Louise Johnson | 26 Sep 1940, Worcester | 25 Sep 2012 Oxford |
Page last updated 2 Mar 2015