Mr. Richard I Land
Foundation
Honoring Kathren Blodget
GE r4esearch Labs
Submitted by Mr. Richard I Land Harvard U.
Katharine Burr Blodgett was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. She was the first woman to be awarded a PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926. My meeting with Kate Blodget in her lab at GE was in 1952, and she showed me how to draw a thin film onto a glass slide - an introduction to material science in its early days. We didn't meet often, but the impression has lasted, such a kind reesearcher in Langmuir's group.
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