Sofia Zarafidou
One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering
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Virginia Sink
The first woman automotive engineer at Chrysler; by 1950 she was the Group Leader in the Chemical Research Department and worked on the LA smog project from 1957 until 1962 when she co-developed Chrysler’s Cleaner Air Package.
Dr Lilia Ann Abron
Lilia Ann Abron’s chemistry BS and sanitary engineering MS led to her PhD on reverse osmosis to remove DDT and Aldrin from water and her career on a wide range of environmental engineering and sustainability projects.
Winifred Burks-Houck
Chemical engineer and specialist on environmental hazards and minimizing potential threats to worker safety. She was the first female president of National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)(1993 – 2001), which was founded in 1972.
Marcelle Lafont
Marcelle Lafont (1905-1982) was a chemical engineer, resistance fighter and French politician.
Virginia Manoviciu
Romanian engineer who spent her entire career from 1954 to 1997 with the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, Timisoara, Romania
Dr Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
The first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Martine de Bertereau
1600s French mineralogist and mining engineer
Dr Maryly Van Leer Peck
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.