For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 2, #scientist Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved the longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene. Here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” 🧵1 #womenInSTEM#linocut#printmaking#histstm
