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Observation is not enough, and it seems to me that in science, as in the arts, there is very little worth having that does not require the exercise of intuition as well as of intelligence, the use of imagination as well as of information.

Kathleen Lonsdale

A crystal is like a class of children arranged for drill, but standing at ease, so that while the class as a whole has regularity both in time and space, each individual child is a little fidgety!

Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Lonsdale

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Born: January 28, 1903

Died: April 1, 1971 (aged 68)

Bio: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene.

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