Layers of Brilliance: The Air She Breathed -- Episode Three

Lost Women of Science by Lost Women of Science

Feb 12, 202639:40Science & Medicine

The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to The General Electric Company’s most famous scientist, Irving Langmuir. Their working relationship is a...

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