Legacy and Honours
- 1956, she was given the title Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
- 1966, she was elected as the first woman president of the International Union of Crystallography.
- 1967, active in encouraging young people to study science, she was elected as the first woman president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
- A Kathleen Lonsdale Building is named in her honour at both University College London, UK and University of Limerick, Ireland.
- 1969, she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the University of Bath.
- Lonsdaleite, an allotrope of carbon, was named in her honour; it is a rare form of diamond found in meteorites.
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