Isabel Hadfield
Chemical engineer Isabel Hadfield spent most of her career in research at the NPL.
Chemical engineer Isabel Hadfield spent most of her career in research at the NPL.
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.
The UK’s first female railway engineer
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer