Lieselotte Templeton

Lieselotte "Lilo" Templeton ( Kamm, 4 August 1918 in Breslau – 10 October 2009 in Berkeley, California) was a German-born American crystallographer.

Life Templeton was the daughter of Berta Kamm (née Stern) and Walter Kamm, and the niece of Otto Stern. She grew up in Germany in a secular Jewish family. She received her bachelor's degree and her PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1946 and 1950, respectively. Her PhD thesis, written under the supervision of Leo Brewer, was named: "The heats of formation of CN, N2 and NO". She was briefly associated with This program helped solving several crystal structures of heavy-element compounds and was also important for her studies on anomalous dispersion with synchrotron radiation on absorption edges which she performed jointly with David H. Templeton.