Katharine Burr Blodgett
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About
Inventor and physicist who held numerous U.S. patents. She invented low-reflectance invisible glass while working for General Electric.
Before Fame
She received an academic scholarship from Bryn Mawr College from which she graduated in 1917.
Trivia
She was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
Family Life
She lived in a Boston marriage with Gertrude Brown.
Associated With
She and Thomas Edison were important inventors of the 20th century.
