Dr Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau
The first female member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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Marion Rice Hart
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator
Martine de Bertereau
1600s French mineralogist and mining engineer
Dr Maryly Van Leer Peck
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.
Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
Vilma Espín
One of the first women in Cuba to study chemical engineering, graduating from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Vilma Lucila Espín Guillois was mostly known as one of the leading Cuban revolutionaries, feminist, and wife of Raúl Castro.
Yeo Bee Yin
Malaysian chemical engineer and politician
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).