Background
Blewett was born on May 28, 1911 in Toronto, Ontario.
Blewett was born on May 28, 1911 in Toronto, Ontario.
She started her career at General Electric, where she devised a technique for controlling smoke pollution from factory chimneys in the 1940s. She then worked at Argonne National Laboratory, then European Organization of Nuclear Research. Following her retirement from European Organization of Nuclear Research in 1977, Blewett retired to Vancouver. She died on June 13, 2004.
She left much of her estate to the American Physical Society, founding the Blewett Scholarship for women physicists who return to the field after a break in their careers.