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American mining engineer

In 1915 she joined Walter Rosenhain’s scientific staff in the Metallurgy Department of the National Physical Laboratory, where she would remain for the rest of her career. She and a physical chemist, Miss I. H. Hadfield, were the first women to be appointed to the scientific staff of the Department.

Metallurgist who specialised in the engineering uses for titanium and its alloys.

1959 she gained her chartered engineer status with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET), and moved to planning electrification schemes. In 1961 she and her husband set up their own consultancy, CivLec Industrial Advisory Services.

Women’s Engineering Society President, electrical engineer and factory inspector.

Scotland’s first woman to become a career civil engineer.

Scotswoman Evelyn Roxburgh is thought to have been the first woman to qualify as an electrical engineer in Scotland.