Dr Jennie Patrick
Jennie R. Patrick worked in both industry and academia, taking particular care to mentor young women in her field. Her work has focussed on supercritical extraction and behaviours of superheated fluids and energy efficiency.
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Dr Yun-Hao Feng
One of the earliest women in chemical engineering
Dr Christine Grant
2022 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Dr Dorothy Quiggle
Petrochemical engineering specialist Dorothy Quiggle (1903-93) may be considered to be the first American woman to have a full career in chemical engineering.
Elizabeth Fulhame
In 1794 she published her “Essay on Combustion”, from which it is now possible to credit her with describing the process of catalysis, albeit without that term. She did hundreds of experiments to try to find a way to dye cloth with gold or other metals.
Dr Eugenia Kumacheva
Ukrainian-Canadian chemical engineer
Fazila Samadova
Azerbaijani academician, chemical engineer-technologist whose career at the Chemistry and Technology of Oils department, Azerbaijan State Institute of Petrochemical Processes led to her becoming a professor (1987), and extremely prolific author of reports and patents.
Dr Izzet Orujova
Initially a film actress, Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (1909-1983) graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University in Baku as a petrochemical technologist (1932).
Janez Lawson
She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Dr Judy Raper
Hungarian-Australian chemical engineer