Lieselotte Templeton
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4 August 1918
Lilo Templeton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lieselotte Kamm 4 August 1918 |
| Died | 10 October 2009 (aged 91) |
| Citizenship | Germany, United States |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | The heats of formation of CN, N2 and NO (1950) |
| Doctoral advisor | Leo Brewer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chemist |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
Lieselotte "Lilo" 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 in a secular Jewish family.[5] They fled from Nazi Germany 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 briefly associated with[5] 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]
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), 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]
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. Bibcode:1978Sci...201..257P. doi:10.1126/science.201.4352.257. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17778657. S2CID 43883153.
- 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. S2CID 93993099.
- 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. Bibcode:1980AcCrA..36..436T. 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. Bibcode:1980AcCrA..36..237T. 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. Bibcode:1982AcCrA..38...62T. doi:10.1107/S0567739482000114. ISSN 0567-7394. S2CID 59334396.