Who won the nobel prize for making glass invisible and how did she do it?

Question

Who won the nobel prize for making glass invisible and how did she do it? Please give details and state source.

Thank you

Answer 1

As far as I know, there is no such prize. Glass is still visible.

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Answer 2

If the glass was invisible, then how would be know it? I never seen (obviously) or heard of an invisible glass, but I think what you mean is who first made CLEAR glass? So you want to know about the first glassmaker right? Well problem is there are so many types of glasses that are clear which would be made by different people, and secondly I highly doubt there was a noble prize for glass making.Sorry to dissapoint you.

Answer 3

If by "invisible" you mean "colorless", colorless glass has been around since the ninth century B.C., when manufacturing techniques were discovered in Syria.

In the seventh century A.D., the writings of Saint Isidore of Seville describe various properties and characteristics of glass.  The reason I bring him up is because he was a leading scholar of his time, and maybe you confused him as being female because of his name.

I can find no reference for a Nobel Prize being offered for invisible glass.  Are you talking about PrivaLite or SmartGlass?

Otherwise, Katharine Burr Blodgett seems like the best answer.  She developed a monomolecular coating with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Irving Langmuir that allowed better transparency through glass.

Answer 4

I think you mean Katharine Blodgett

She built up a soapy film with thickness equal to ¼ the average wavelength of visible light =1388 Angstroms so any light that reflected off the glass surface would have traveled half a wavelength farther than light that had reflected off the film surface so most of the reflections would cancel out she  tweaked the chemical composition of the film to adjust its index of refraction to enhance the reflection-canceling and she was able to eliminate almost all of the reflection making the glass nearly invisible.