Lieselotte Templeton

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Lieselotte Templeton , b. Kamm, (born August 4, 1918 in Breslau , † October 10, 2009 in Berkeley , California ) was a German-born American crystallographer. In 1987 she and her husband David H. Templeton received the Patterson Award from the American Crystallographic Association.

Life

Templeton was the daughter of Berta Kamm (née Stern) and Walter Kamm and she was the niece of the physicist Otto Stern and the botanist Kurt Stern. She grew up in Germany, fled to France in 1933 and emigrated to the USA in 1936. She received her bachelor's degree in 1946 and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley . Glenn T. Seaborg was a member of the thesis qualification examination committee. Her doctoral thesis, which she wrote under the supervision of Leo Brewer , was entitled: "The heats of formation of CN, N 2 and NO". She was briefly employed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and later worked as a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1948 she was married to David H. Templeton . She had two children with him. Due to anti-nepotism rules, she was sometimes not allowed to work in the same department as her husband.

research

After completing her PhD, she worked on solid state chemistry, ceramics and explosives detection. Her research in crystallography began with her work on the Analytical Absorption Program (AGNOST), later also referred to as ABSOR. This program helped to solve different crystal structures of compounds with heavy elements and was also important for her investigations on the anomalous dispersion of synchrotron radiation at absorption edges, which she carried out together with David H. Templeton . This led to the development of a technique using anomalous diffraction of many wavelengths. This is now a standard method for protein structure analysis.

Together with David H. Templeton, she used the polarized nature of synchrotron radiation to show X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules and to measure polarized anomalous scattering in diffraction experiments for the first time.

Selected publications

Three of her most important publications on anamal dispersion of absorption edges with synchrotron radiation:

  • JC Phillips, DH Templeton, LK Templeton, KO Hodgson: LIII-Edge Anomalous X-ray Scattering by Cesium Measured with Synchrotron Radiation . In: Science . 201, No. 4352, July 21, 1978, ISSN  0036-8075 , pp. 257-259. doi : 10.1126 / science.201.4352.257 .
  • Lieselotte K. Templeton, David H. Templeton, R. Paul Phizackerley: L3-Edge anomalous scattering of x-rays by praseodymium and samarium . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . 102, No. 3, 1980, ISSN  0002-7863 , pp. 1185-1186. doi : 10.1021 / ja00523a057 .
  • KO Hodgson, JC Phillips, LK Templeton, DH Templeton: Anomalous scattering of X-rays by cesium and cobalt measured with synchrotron radiation . In: Acta Crystallographica Section A: Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography . 36, No. 3, May 1, 1980, ISSN  0567-7394 , pp. 436-442. doi : 10.1107 / S0567739480000940 .

Two of her publications on X-ray dichroism in anisotropic molecules:

  • DH Templeton, LK Templeton: Polarized X-ray absorption and double refraction in vanadyl bisacetylacetonate . In: Acta Crystallographica Section A . 36, No. 2, March 1, 1980, ISSN  0567-7394 , pp. 237-241. doi : 10.1107 / S0567739480000472 .
  • LK Templeton, DH Templeton: X-ray dichroism and polarized anomalous scattering of the uranyl ion . In: Acta Crystallographica Section A: Crystal Physics, Diffraction, Theoretical and General Crystallography . 38, No. 1, January 1, 1982, ISSN  0567-7394 , pp. 62-67. doi : 10.1107 / S0567739482000114 .

Awards

She received the 1987 Patterson Award from the American Crystallographic Association with her husband, David H. Templeton, for her discoveries regarding the use, measurement, and analysis of abnormal X-ray scattering.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Templeton's Honored for Work in Crystallography . In: Physics Today . 40, No. 7, July 1, 1987, ISSN  0031-9228 , pp. 83-83. doi : 10.1063 / 1.2820123 .
  2. ↑ a b Otto Stern's Collected Letters - Volume 1: University career and the time of National Socialism , Schmidt-Böcking, Horst., Templeton, Alan., Trageser, Wolfgang., ISBN 9783662557358 , OCLC 1047864732 .
  3. ↑ Bartmann, Sylke .: Like a shadow went I my way to the end - emigrants from science and art: Autobiographical flashbacks From The Year 1940 . Budrich UniPress, Limited, Leverkusen-Opladen 2014, ISBN 9783863881986 , OCLC 1045532895 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Frederick Hollander: Lieselotte Templeton 1918 - 2009 . Pp. 19-20. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Award Descriptions . Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b c d Alan Templeton, Diana Templeton: In Memoriam: David H. Templeton . In: senate.universityofcalifornia.edu . 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  7. ↑ Stern, Kurt. In: Frankfurt.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Glenn T. Seaborg: Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg 1946-1958. . Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, 1990, OCLC 741488663 .
  9. ^ Donald Bean Gilchrist, Edward Atwood Henry: Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities . HW Wilson Company, 1949.
  10. ↑ a b c Women of science: righting the record , Kass-Simon, G. (Gabriele), Farnes, Patricia, 1931-1985., Nash, Deborah., 1st Midland book. Edition, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993, ISBN 0253208130 , OCLC 28112853 .
personal data
SURNAME Templeton, Lieselotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamm, Lieselotte (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 2009
Place of death Berkeley , California