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Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with men—it was the air she breathed


From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance impressed the world’s leading physicists

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