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Katharine Burr Blodgett

1898 - 1979

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Katharine Burr Blodgett (January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979) was an American physicist and chemist known for her work on surface chemistry, in particular her invention of "invisible" or nonreflective glass while working at General Electric. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katharine Burr Blodgett has received more than 121,941 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Katharine Burr Blodgett is the 442nd most popular physicist (up from 468th in 2019), the 3,037th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,832nd in 2019) and the 92nd most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Katharine Burr Blodgett ranks 442 out of 851. Before her are Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, Heinrich Rubens, and Walther Meissner. After her are Richard C. Tolman, Gabriele Veneziano, Meghnad Saha, Johannes Franz Hartmann, Lyman Spitzer, and Hagen Kleinert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Katharine Burr Blodgett ranks 108. Before her are Ferenc Plattkó, Leon Štukelj, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Howard Florey, Shinichi Suzuki, and Vladimir Fock. After her are Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Paul Robeson, Messali Hadj, Eric Hoffer, Ernst Wollweber, and Marcel Griaule. Among people deceased in 1979, Katharine Burr Blodgett ranks 90. Before her are Merle Oberon, Ahmad Zahir, Preguinho, Philippe Halsman, Santos Urdinarán, and Larisa Shepitko. After her are Morteza Motahhari, Ferenc Nagy, Vagif Mustafazadeh, José María Velasco Ibarra, Joseph Alcazar, and Léonide Massine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Katharine Burr Blodgett ranks 3,037 out of 20,380. Before her are Gutzon Borglum (1867), Vonda N. McIntyre (1948), Kate Chopin (1850), Dan Inosanto (1936), Calista Flockhart (1964), and Thomas P. Stafford (1930). After her are Melvil Dewey (1851), Curtis Mayfield (1942), Dan Castellaneta (1957), Louis Gossett Jr. (1936), Edward Zwick (1952), and Russell Means (1939).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Katharine Burr Blodgett ranks 92. Before her are Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901), Philip Morrison (1915), Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), and Robert W. Wood (1868). After her are Richard C. Tolman (1881), Lyman Spitzer (1914), Alan Guth (1947), Clarence Zener (1905), Maurice Karnaugh (1924), and Gordon Gould (1920).

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