Dr Diana Temple
Australian medical researcher
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Dr Anna Dmitrievna Gelman
20th century Russian chemist and engineer, who was the first to synthesise alkene complexes of platinum, discovered heptavalent states of plutonium and other actinides and created and improved processes for radionuclide production.
Turid Wik
Norwegian chemical engineer
Valeria Blakey
Possibly the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering in Australia, Valeria Blakey gained her Bachelors in Applied Science (Industrial Chemistry) from The University of Queensland, in 1950.
Tuanku Zara Salim
Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.
Temenuzhka Krumova Budinova-Petrova
Bulgarian professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, researching the processing of fossil fuels, biomass and methods for synthesizing high-tech carbon materials.
Suzanne Mathieu
French chemical engineer and advocate for girls in STEM
Sofia Zarafidou
One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova (b. 1939) specialised in the synthesis and application of multiblock copolymers and coatings, holding many patents.
Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno
When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering, it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico.