Katharine Burr Blodgett's brilliance had to fit into the role of the only woman in a lab filled with menit was the air she breathed

"The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to the General Electric Company's most famous scientist, Irving Langmuir. Their working relationship is an elegant symbiosis. Her forte is experimentation; his is scientific theory. We follow their partnership as they successfully find ways to build a better lightbulb, but Langmuir stumbles with an off-the-wall theory of matter."

"Katharine is an anomaly in Schenectady. A brilliant female scientist where the norms for what was expected of a woman at the time clashed with who she was and what she did. At work, it's wall-to-wall men, where a woman enters a room a woman who isn't a secretary, but an actual peerand that lands with a small, audible vibe shift."

Katharine Burr Blodgett worked as the only woman in a male-dominated General Electric laboratory and became indispensable to Irving Langmuir. Their collaboration paired Blodgett's experimental skill with Langmuir's theoretical talent, producing technological advances such as improved lightbulbs. Langmuir later pursued an unconventional theory of matter that faltered. Blodgett built a personal life in Schenectady, attending church, making friends, and experiencing love and disappointment. In 1924 she went to the University of Cambridge to study with prominent physicists, continuing her scientific education and professional development.

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