Browsing: Blodgetts

How is a legacy preserved, and how is someone forgotten? Determined to make a final name for himself, Nobel Prize–winning chemist Irving Langmuir ventured into science…

In 1918 Katharine Burr Blodgett arrived at the General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., a facility known as the “House of Magic.” She…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.When it comes to our cultural understanding of who can be a scientist,…