Political Quotes

“I wish to pay tribute to Dr. Katharine Blodgett Gebbie, the past director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's--NIST--Physics Laboratory and its successor, the Physical Measurement Laboratory. On December 10, 2015, the Precision Measurement Laboratory at NIST's Boulder campus will be formally renamed in honor of Dr. Gebbie, the first time in more than 50 years that a major NIST building has been named for an individual. This incredible recognition underscores and celebrates Dr. Gebbie's 45 years of service to NIST and her contributions on behalf of the scientific community and our Nation. At a time when a much smaller percentage of women were a part of the American workforce and pursued advanced academic degrees, Dr. Gebbie received an undergraduate degree in physics from Bryn Mawr. She went on to receive a B.S. in astronomy and a Ph.D. in physics from University College London. She began her career in 1966 by doing astrophysics research at the Joint Institute for Lab Physics--JILA--a cooperative enterprise between the University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST. She later joined NIST as a physicist in 1968, working in the quantum physics division of JILA. Dr. Gebbie's ascent into a leadership role began in 1981, when she was named as a scientific assistant at the National Measurement Laboratory. In 1983, she became a program analyst for then-NIST Director Ernest Ambler and his deputy, Ray Kammer. In 1985, Dr. Ambler appointed Dr.…”