Lieselotte Templeton

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]

Life

Templeton was the daughter of Berta Kamm (née Stern) and Walter Kamm, and she was 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, that she wrote under supervision of Leo Brewer, was named: "The heats of formation of CN, N2 and NO".[5][9] She was shortly associated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and later worked as a research scientist for the University of California, Berkeley.[1] Since 1948, she was married to David H. Templeton.[7] She 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]

Research

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), which was later also 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]

Selected publications

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

  • Phillips, J. C.; Templeton, D. H.; Templeton, L. K.; Hodgson, K. O. (1978-07-21). "LIII-Edge Anomalous X-ray Scattering by Cesium Measured with Synchrotron Radiation". Science. 201 (4352): 257–259. doi:10.1126/science.201.4352.257. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17778657.
  • Templeton, Lieselotte K.; Templeton, David H.; Phizackerley, R. Paul (1980). "L3-Edge anomalous scattering of x-rays by praseodymium and samarium". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102 (3): 1185–1186. doi:10.1021/ja00523a057. ISSN 0002-7863.
  • Hodgson, K. O.; Phillips, J. C.; Templeton, L. K.; Templeton, D. H. (1980-05-01). "Anomalous scattering of X-rays by cesium and cobalt measured with synchrotron radiation". Acta Crystallographica Section A. 36 (3): 436–442. doi:10.1107/S0567739480000940. ISSN 0567-7394.

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

  • Templeton, D. H.; Templeton, L. K. (1980-03-01). "Polarized X-ray absorption and double refraction in vanadyl bisacetylacetonate". Acta Crystallographica Section A. 36 (2): 237–241. doi:10.1107/S0567739480000472. ISSN 0567-7394.
  • Templeton, L. K.; Templeton, D. H. (1982-01-01). "X-ray dichroism and polarized anomalous scattering of the uranyl ion". Acta Crystallographica Section A. 38 (1): 62–67. doi:10.1107/S0567739482000114. ISSN 0567-7394.

Awards

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]

References
  1. "Templetons Honored for Work in Crystallography". Physics Today. 40 (7): 83. 1987-07-01. doi:10.1063/1.2820123. ISSN 0031-9228.
  2. Schmidt-Böcking, Horst.; Templeton, Alan.; Trageser, Wolfgang (eds.). Otto Sterns gesammelte Briefe – Band 1 : Hochschullaufbahn und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 9783662557358. OCLC 1047864732.
  3. Bartmann, Sylke (2014). Wie ein Schatten Ging Ich Meinen Weg Zu Ende – Emigrantinnen Aus Wissenschaft und Kunst : Autobiographische Rückblenden Aus Dem Jahr 1940. Leverkusen-Opladen: Budrich UniPress, Limited. ISBN 9783863881986. OCLC 1045532895.
  4. "Liselotte Templeton". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  5. Hollander, Frederick. "Lieselotte Templeton 1918 – 2009" (PDF). pp. 19–20. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  6. "Award Descriptions". www.amercrystalassn.org. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  7. "David H. Templeton". senate.universityofcalifornia.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  8. Seaborg, Glenn T. (1990). Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg 1946–1958. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California. OCLC 741488663.
  9. Donald Bean Gilchrist; Edward Atwood Henry (1949). Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. H.W. Wilson Company.
  10. G Kass-Simon; Patricia Farnes; Deborah Nash, eds. (1993). Women of science : righting the record (1st Midland book ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253208130. OCLC 28112853.
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