Gebbie, Katharine B.
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Name (Latin)
Gebbie, Katharine B.
Other forms of name
Blodgett, Katharine
Date of birth
1932-07-04
Date of death
2016-08-17
Field of activity
Physics
Occupation
Government executives
Physicists
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Aug. 29, 2016(Katharine B. Gebbie, a physicist and leading federal administrator who supervised a laboratory whose scientists won four Nobel Prizes in physics in a span of 15 years, died Aug. 17 [2016] in Bethesda, Md.; she was 84; starting in 1990, Dr. Gebbie spent 22 years as founding director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory and its predecessor, the Physics Laboratory, at the Gaithersburg, Md.-based National Institute of Standards and Technology; Katharine Blodgett was born in Cambridge, Mass., on July 4, 1932; in 1964 Katharine Gebbie received a doctorate in physics at University College in London; at her death, she was a senior adviser to the chief of the Physical Measurement Laboratory, splitting her time between its facilities in Gaithersburg and Boulder; m. Alastair Gebbie in 1957)
- LC data base, 11-30-89(hdg.: Gebbie, Katharine B.; usage: Katharine B. Gebbie)