Engineering Archives - Page 10 of 33

Dr Adesina Aramide Adenike

Nigerian petrochemical academic

Dr Adisa Azapagić

Chemical engineer and academic from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has worked mainly in the UK

Amparo Barbra Cisneros

Amparo Barba Cisneros was part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943.

Dr Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova

Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova (1926-2017), worked most of her chemical engineering career in Uzbekistan, working mainly on extraction of lipids and oils from plants.

20th century Russian chemist and engineer, who was the first to synthesise alkene complexes of platinum, discovered heptavalent states of plutonium and other actinides and created and improved processes for radionuclide production.

Turid Wik

Norwegian chemical engineer

Valeria Blakey

Possibly the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering in Australia, Valeria Blakey gained her Bachelors in Applied Science (Industrial Chemistry) from The University of Queensland, in 1950.

Tuanku Zara Salim

Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.

Temenuzhka Krumova Budinova-Petrova

Bulgarian professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, researching the processing of fossil fuels, biomass and methods for synthesizing high-tech carbon materials.