Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One

In the first of this five-part season we trace Katharine’s early years as she picks up European languages, her early scientific education at a progressive New York school for girls and then Bryn Mawr, a women’s college. She seems destined to end up working at the General Electric Company’ s industrial research lab, but first she must prove herself at the University of Chicago, where, in the middle of World War I, she works to improve the life-saving gas mask. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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Layers of Brilliance: The Chemical Genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett - Episode One is an episode from Lost Women of Science by Lost Women of Science.

This episode is 34:34 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2026.

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