National Institute of Standards and Technology | Katharine Blodgett Gebbie: A Tribute @NIST | Uploaded August 2016 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
This video tribute to legendary NIST laboratory director Katharine Blodgett Gebbie was produced in late 2015 when the most advanced laboratory building at the NIST campus in Boulder, Colo., the Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Laboratory, was named in her honor.
Dr. Gebbie worked at NIST for more than 45 years, served as director of NIST’s Physics Laboratory (PL) from 1990 to 2011 and of its successor, the Physical Measurement Laboratory, from 2011 to 2012. Under her leadership, NIST staff won four Nobel Prizes in Physics between 1997 and 2012 as well as two MacArthur Fellowships, aka “genius grants.”
Dr. Gebbie passed away in August of 2016.
Photos courtesy of Katharine Blodgett Gebbie, Marijke Alkema, and the NIST Archives.
This video tribute to legendary NIST laboratory director Katharine Blodgett Gebbie was produced in late 2015 when the most advanced laboratory building at the NIST campus in Boulder, Colo., the Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Laboratory, was named in her honor.
Dr. Gebbie worked at NIST for more than 45 years, served as director of NIST’s Physics Laboratory (PL) from 1990 to 2011 and of its successor, the Physical Measurement Laboratory, from 2011 to 2012. Under her leadership, NIST staff won four Nobel Prizes in Physics between 1997 and 2012 as well as two MacArthur Fellowships, aka “genius grants.”
Dr. Gebbie passed away in August of 2016.
Photos courtesy of Katharine Blodgett Gebbie, Marijke Alkema, and the NIST Archives.
