Department:
Natural Sciences
Biography:
Olga Kennard, née Weisz, OBE, FRS, is a British scientist specialising in crystallography, and founder of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. She attended Newnham College Cambridge, studying Natural Sciences at a time when women did not formally receive a degree. She went on to gain an MA in 1948 and DSc in 1973. During her career she has produced over 200 scientific papers and written several books. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987 and a year later she was awarded the OBE ‘For services to Scientific Research on the Structure of Biological Molecules’. In recognition of her work, there is the Olga Kennard Research Fellowship in crystallography, administered by the Royal Society.
Date of Birth/Death:
1924