Born: 1590 (circa), France
Died: Unknown (after 1642)
Country most active: France
Also known as: Martine de Betereau Beausoleil, Martine de Chastelet
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
France provides one of the best documented examples of a woman working independently and successfully in the field: Marie Meurdrac, as discussed above. Her near contemporary, Martine de Bertereau, was a mineralogist and mining engineer with her husband, so although in a cognate chemical field, not quite so demonstrably doing what we think of today as chemical engineering.