Helen Dick Megaw 1907 - 2002
- occupation:
- Crystallographer
- Nationality:
- Irish
- born in:
- Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- Made:
- Huddersfield and Cambridge
1934 - worked on ‘heavy’ and ‘normal’ ice structure in Antarctic. 'Megaw Island' named for her work.
1934 - awarded PhD at Cambridge, research student under J D Bernal, alongside Dorothy Crowfoot (later Hodgkin)
1943 - at Philips Lamps Ltd, Mitcham, worked out the crystal structure of barium titanate.
1946 - appointed to Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where she remained for rest of scientific career. Was present when Francis Crick and James Watson worked out double helix structure of DNA.
1951 - scientific consultant to Festival Pattern Group, was responsible for providing a number of crystal structure diagrams to the Council of Industrial Design.
