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4 days ago

Katharine Burr Blodgett's brilliant legacy vanished from memory

Katharine Burr Blodgett's groundbreaking scientific contributions to surface chemistry and non-reflecting glass were gradually forgotten despite initial recognition, while her contemporary Irving Langmuir pursued questionable research yet maintained his legacy.
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1 month ago

Katharine Burr Blodgett's brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with menit was the air she breathed

The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to the General Electric Company's most famous scientist, Irving Langmuir. Their working relationship is an elegant symbiosis. Her forte is experimentation; his is scientific theory. We follow their partnership as they successfully find ways to build a better lightbulb, but Langmuir stumbles with an off-the-wall theory of matter.
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1 month ago

Unveiling a pioneer of early nanotechnology

Katharine Burr Blodgett developed surface-coating techniques that enabled nanotechnology decades before its time and worked within industrial research labs at General Electric.
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