Catherine Cardy
The Chemical Institute of Canada’s first female chair (2006)
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Dr Jessie Dorehill Crampton Mole
British chemical engineer whose early work was mainly concerned with benzenes and phenyls but post-WW2 she was also working on processes producing materials for the electrical and electronics industries, such as condensers, dielectrics and materials for batteries. From 1950 she was a Civil Service Scientific Officer at the Ministry of Supply’s Atomic Energy Division, and later at the Atomic Research Establishment, where she was Assistant to the Director until she retired in 1975
Helen S Crooks
Ohio State University can claim some very early women chemical engineers, including Helen S. Crooks (BSc 1923)
Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova
Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova (b. 1936) at the University of Sofia researched corrosion- and wear-resistant coatings for steel.
Dr Mojirade Monsurat Oloruntoba
Research and Development Officer at Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, one of the institutes of Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure
Modupeola Oluremilekun Kasim
Probably Africa’s earliest modern woman in chemical engineering, Engr. (Mrs.) Modupeola Oluremilekun Kasim BSC, MSc, FNSE, (1945-2021) gained her degree in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University, followed by an MSc in Operations Research (1975).
Meghan Ireland
Chemical engineer Meghan Ireland is Chief Blender at the WhistlePig distillery in New England, managing the whiskey from barrel to bottle.
Sub-Lieutenant Masego Mosupye
The South African Navy’s first female engineering officer on the chemical engineering side
Dr Mary Davidson Cameron
Believed to have been New Zealand/Aotearoa’s first female engineering academic. She later helped set up the Food Technology Research Centre, an academia/industry knowledge exchange centre.
Mary Bucher
Chemical engineer who earned her MSc from Ohio State University in 1930