‘Storm Kathleen’ was named after Irish Quaker scientist and pacifist Kathleen Lonsdale, a crystallographer who demonstrated the crystal structure of benzene. Photo: Kathleen Lonsdale, UCL laboratory, 1948
Second 2024 storm named after Quaker
'Like her fellow Quaker scientist, astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Lonsdale saw close parallels between her life as a Quaker and her work as a scientist.'
by Rebecca Hardy
19th April 2024
The extreme weather that hit parts of the UK earlier this month was named after a Quaker female scientist.
