Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Lonsdale lived from 1903 through 1971.  As a child she was enrolled at Ilford Country High School for boys, to study science and math because the school for girls she attended did not have these courses.  She was a crystallographer, which is the science of the arrangement of atoms in solids.  She discovered the structure of benzene by the X-Ray method.  She is most famous for being the first woman to be elected in many elite campaigns.  For example, she was elected in the Fellow of the Royal Society, the first woman professor at University College London, and the first woman president of British Association for the Advancement of Science. 

I chose to write about Lonsdale because she accomplished many things and did not let her sex stop her.  She was a very hard worker and well-rounded through the amount of sciences she studied.  While being a full-time mother, Lonsdale was also a profeser and worked on the synthesis of diamonds.  At the University she is still honored today for her many achievements.  Although it might have been tough to accomplish all of the titles she has recieved, she never gave up and never let the fact she was a female, and considered lower than men, bring her down.