His colleague at General Electric, Katharine Burr Blodgett, someone who knows the science as well as he does. Katharine Burr Blodgett: You may have been noticing the reflection from Dr. Langmuir’s spectacles. She is an inspiration, but for the duration of her career, Katharine Burr Blodgett worked in Irving Langmuir’s Shadow. As for the Katharine Burr Blodgett collection, they don’t have one. Her full name was Katharine Buchanan Burr Blodgett, and just because this might get a little bit confusing, we're going to call her Katharine Burr.