Dr.

Katharine Blodgett Gebbie

(
1932
2016
)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
;
Bethesda, MD
Research institution administrator; Astrophysicist
Area
Leadership, Policy, and Communications
Specialty
Educational and Academic Leadership
Elected
2008
Leader and founding director of NIST's Physics Laboratory. In implementing the vision of a research organization that attracts the best people and provides them with the resources to do their best work, created a premier research institution that has garnered three Nobel prizes in physics.
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