Katharine Burr Blodgett

Katherine Burr Blodgett ( born January 10, 1898 in Schenectady, New York, † October 12, 1979 ibid ) was an American physicist and the first woman to found in 1917 in the research laboratories of General Electric ( GE) employment as a scientist. There she assisted Irving Langmuir, who was concerned with research on monomolecular coatings. Blodgett was able to put into practice theories Langmuir (Langmuir - Blodgett films ) and thus developed the first non-reflective coating glass and metal surfaces.

Katherine Blodgett was also the first woman who earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge ( 1926).