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Is peace possible? Computer science from molten-hot rock and smoulderingKathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform. Horrified by the dropping of the first atomic bombs, Lonsdale felt that the entire scientific community was now tainted by the violence it had enabled. Published in 1957, 'Is Peace Possible?' was her attempt to make amends for this communal guilt by