Born: 30 September 1891, Mexico
Died: 28 October 1974
Country most active: Mexico
Also known as: NA
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.
When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering (founded in 1901), it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico. She then taught for the next 28 years until what would normally have been retirement but her original birth records were lost in a fire and she was able to pretend to be 10 years younger and start a new career. From 1946 she was head of quality control for the National Union of Sugar Producers until her death.