"Well, actually, to be super honest about this, I was not that excited about doing a whole multi-episode season on Katharine because it takes so much time and it's really like researching a bookit has taken us months. We've been at this for almost a year on this season, I kid you not. However, my co-executive producer, Amy Scharf, for years, ever since we started [nearly] five years ago, has been, like, lobbying for Katharine Burr Blodgett."
"When it comes to our cultural understanding of who can be a scientist, the idea that it's largely a career for men tends to still dominate. This season the podcast Lost Women of Science digs into the life of the American physicist and chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett, whose work helped pioneer nanotechnology a century before its time. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing."
Cultural perceptions often cast science as a predominantly male career. A multi-episode season titled Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett focuses on Blodgett, an American physicist and chemist whose work helped pioneer nanotechnology about a century early. The season required nearly a year of research and examines Blodgett's work at the General Electric Research Laboratory. The narrative connects Blodgett's achievements to the broader history of industrial research labs and highlights a period when major corporations invested substantial resources into in-house scientific research and development.
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