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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…

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s relatives lead the Lost Women of Science production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit,…

The 1930s prove to be an exceptional decade for research at the General Electric Company. Katharine Burr Blodgett works closely alongside her boss, Irving Langmuir, who…

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,…

Born to a family with a tragic past, Katharine Burr Blodgett defied the expectations of her upbringing as an upper-middle class girl to make chemistry and…

The Guardian’s 2025 charity appeal launched a few weeks ago against a backdrop of creeping nastiness and social division: the return of 1970s-style racist abuse, the…

Katharine VinerSometimes you just need to pull on the thread.That’s how it started for two Guardian reporters in the spring of 2021, when they began to…