Katharine Burr Blodgett

Entrepreneur
BIRTHDAY
January 10,1898
Birthplace
Schenectady, NY
Age
Oct 12,1979,age 81
Birth Sign
Capricorn
BIRTHDAY
January 10,1898 (age Oct 12,1979,age 81)
Birthplace
Schenectady, NY

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.