Katie Hafner

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 was just 20 years old when she entered a world built almost entirely for men. She j... See more

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 physics the center of her life. We trace Blodgett’s early years, as she picked up European languages... See more