: Mothers Are People . Kathleen Shannon.

Kathleen Early

Dr. Kathleen Iles

'Where are your intelligent mothers to come from?': marriage and family in the scientific career of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-71).

Although she was one of the most successful female scientists in twentieth-century Britain, the X-ray crystallographer Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale (1903-71) has received relatively little attention from historians of science. This paper, based on material from the recently opened Dame Kathleen Lonsdale Papers, argues that Lonsdale's scientific career was shaped in particular ways by her identity ...

Barbara Tversky and Kathleen Hemenway

Concepts may be organized into taxonomies varying in inclusiveness or abstraction, such as furniture, table, card table or animal, bird, robin. For taxonomies of common objects and organisms, the basic level, the level of table and bird, has been determined to be most informative (Rosen, Mervis, Gray, Johnson, & Boyes-Braem, 1976). Psychology, linguistics, and anthropology have produced a varie...

What People Are

In the preface to the First Edition of Williams' Obstetrics published in 1903 the author wrote these words: "I have attempted to set for-th as briefly as seemed to be consistent with thoroughness, the scientific basis for and the practical application of the obstetric art. . . I have endeavored to present the more practical aspects in such a manner as to be of direct service to the obstetrician...