Katharine Burr Blodgett

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898 to 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her advances in surface chemistry. Among her inventions is the world's first non-reflecting glass. She was one of the first women hired as a scientist at General Electric Laboratories, in 1918, and in 1926 became the first woman to be awarded a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, working with Sir Ernest Rutherford. Blodgett held eight patents and received awards including the Francis Garvan Medal from the American Chemical Society and a posthumous induction to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Working with Irving Langmuir she developed the Langmuir-Blodgett technique of transferring a single layer of molecules from a liquid surface to a solid surface, producing a one-molecule-thin film.