Lieselotte Templeton (née Kamm, 4 August 1918 in Breslau – 10 October 2009 in Berkeley, California) was a German-born American crystallographer. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] She received the Patterson Award of the American Crystallographic Association together with her husband David H. Templeton in 1987. [6]
Templeton was the daughter of Berta Kamm (née Stern) and Walter Kamm, and the niece of Otto Stern. [2] [7] She grew up in Germany, fled to France in 1933 and emigrated to the US in 1936. [5] She received her bachelor's degree and her PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1946 and 1950, respectively. [5] Glenn T. Seaborg was part of the committee for the qualifying examination of her PhD. [8] Her PhD thesis, written under the supervision of Leo Brewer, was named: "The heats of formation of CN, N2 and NO". [5] [9] She was shortly associated with[ clarification needed] the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and later worked as a research scientist for the University of California, Berkeley. [1] In 1948, she married David H. Templeton [7] and had two children with him. [7] Due to anti-nepotism rules, she was sometimes not allowed to work in the same department as her husband. [5]
After her PhD, she worked on solid-state chemistry, ceramics, and the detection of explosives. [5] Her research in crystallography started with her work on the analytical absorption program (AGNOST), later called ABSOR. [10] This program helped solving several crystal structures of heavy-element compounds and was also important for her studies on anomalous dispersion with synchrotron radiation on absorption edges which she performed jointly with David H. Templeton. [10] This led to the development of the multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing, now a standard method for protein structure analysis. [7]
Together with David H. Templeton, she also used the polarized nature of synchrotron radiation to show X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules and to measure the polarized anomalous scattering in diffraction experiments for the first time. [10]
Three of her most important publications on anamalous dispersion of absorption edges with synchrotron radiation:
Two of her publications on X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules:
She received the Patterson Award of the American Crystallographic Association jointly with her husband David H. Templeton in 1987 for their discoveries regarding use, measurement, and analysis of anomalous X-ray scattering. [1] [6]
The German Society for Crystallography (DGK) awards the Lieselotte Templeton Prize to students who have written an excellent Bachelor's or Master's thesis in the field of crystallography. [11]
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Lieselotte Templeton (née Kamm, 4 August 1918 in Breslau – 10 October 2009 in Berkeley, California) was a German-born American crystallographer. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] She received the Patterson Award of the American Crystallographic Association together with her husband David H. Templeton in 1987. [6]
Templeton was the daughter of Berta Kamm (née Stern) and Walter Kamm, and the niece of Otto Stern. [2] [7] She grew up in Germany, fled to France in 1933 and emigrated to the US in 1936. [5] She received her bachelor's degree and her PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1946 and 1950, respectively. [5] Glenn T. Seaborg was part of the committee for the qualifying examination of her PhD. [8] Her PhD thesis, written under the supervision of Leo Brewer, was named: "The heats of formation of CN, N2 and NO". [5] [9] She was shortly associated with[ clarification needed] the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and later worked as a research scientist for the University of California, Berkeley. [1] In 1948, she married David H. Templeton [7] and had two children with him. [7] Due to anti-nepotism rules, she was sometimes not allowed to work in the same department as her husband. [5]
After her PhD, she worked on solid-state chemistry, ceramics, and the detection of explosives. [5] Her research in crystallography started with her work on the analytical absorption program (AGNOST), later called ABSOR. [10] This program helped solving several crystal structures of heavy-element compounds and was also important for her studies on anomalous dispersion with synchrotron radiation on absorption edges which she performed jointly with David H. Templeton. [10] This led to the development of the multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction phasing, now a standard method for protein structure analysis. [7]
Together with David H. Templeton, she also used the polarized nature of synchrotron radiation to show X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules and to measure the polarized anomalous scattering in diffraction experiments for the first time. [10]
Three of her most important publications on anamalous dispersion of absorption edges with synchrotron radiation:
Two of her publications on X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules:
She received the Patterson Award of the American Crystallographic Association jointly with her husband David H. Templeton in 1987 for their discoveries regarding use, measurement, and analysis of anomalous X-ray scattering. [1] [6]
The German Society for Crystallography (DGK) awards the Lieselotte Templeton Prize to students who have written an excellent Bachelor's or Master's thesis in the field of crystallography. [11]
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