Name the Irish chemist who achieved several firsts for a female scientist during her career, including becoming president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kathleen Lonsdale demonstrated that the benzene ring is flat by elucidating the structure of hexamethyl benzene using the X-ray diffraction technique. In 1931, she became the first scientist to use Fourier spectral techniques to solve the structure of hexachlorobenzene.

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