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Katharine Burr Blodgett Born January 10, 1898 – October 12, 1979 Film Structure and Method of Preparation Patent #: 2,220,860
Inducted 2007 Working as a research assistant to Irving Langmuir, Katharine Blodgett experimented with monolayers—organic films only a single molecule thick—initiating a new scientific discipline and laboratory techniques still used today.
Invention Impact Inventor Bio Born in Schenectady, New York, Blodgett earned her B.S. from Bryn
Mawr College and her M.S. from the University of Chicago. As a research
assistant to Langmuir at General Electric, Blodgett followed his
discovery that a single water-surface monolayer could be transferred to
a solid substrate. Years later, she found the process could be repeated
to create a multi-layer stack of any thickness. The Langmuir-Blodgett
technique, essentially unchanged since Blodgett’s discovery in 1935, has
found ever-widening uses in scientific research and practical
applications ranging from solar energy conversion to integrated circuit
manufacturing.
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