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Katharine Blodgett Gebbie

August 24, 2016 in Modern Worthies

Katharine Blodgett Gebbie

Mentor to Nobel Laureates

In nearly fifty years of working for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gebbie was the director for the Physical Measurement Laboratory and its two immediate predecessors. During her time as director, four of the scientists working under her won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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