"Born to a family with a tragic past, Katharine Burr Blodgett defied the expectations of her upbringing as an upper-middle class girl to make chemistry and physics the center of her life. We trace Blodgett's early years, as she picked up European languages, and her early scientific education at a progressive school for girls in New York City and then at Bryn Mawr, a women's college."
"In 1939, the Nobel Prize Organization decided to celebrate some of its past laureates. They made this film featuring one of their winners, a chemist named Irving Langmuir, who won the prize in 1932, and in the film, he's standing in his lab at the General Electric Company, explaining some of the science that got him the prize. But he also describes another more recent breakthrough, the invention of non reflecting glass."
Katharine Burr Blodgett was born into a family with a tragic past and chose chemistry and physics over expected upper-middle-class roles. She learned European languages and received early scientific education at a progressive New York school and at Bryn Mawr College. She worked at the University of Chicago during World War I to improve lifesaving gas masks. She later joined the General Electric industrial research lab after proving her capabilities. Irving Langmuir, a GE chemist and Nobel laureate, helped develop nonreflecting glass and presented the breakthrough in a 1939 film while in his GE laboratory.
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