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Waikato Independent, Volume XLIV, Issue 1189, 5 October 1945, Page 3

Rare Honour for Women For the first time in its long history the Royal Society has elected two women scientists as Fellows. Not since 1838, when Queen Victoria had this honour bestowed on her, has a woman been elected. Now Mrs Kathleen Lonsdale, physicist, and Miss Marjorie Stephenson, bio-chemist, follow in the Royal footsteps. They can add th e letters F.R.S. after their names. Miss Stephenson, who has an enthusiastic, vigorous, and lively personality, lectures and teaches at Cambridge University, and Mrs Lonsdale, who has three school-age children and who is 42 years old, won her education with scholarships. Petite, unassuming, and modest, she is the youngest of ten children, and her father was a postmaster.