She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Hungarian-Australian chemical engineer
2022 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Petrochemical engineering specialist Dorothy Quiggle (1903-93) may be considered to be the first American woman to have a full career in chemical engineering.
In 1794 she published her “Essay on Combustion”, from which it is now possible to credit her with describing the process of catalysis, albeit without that term. She did hundreds of experiments to try to find a way to dye cloth with gold or other metals.
Irish crystallographer and pioneer in X-ray crystallography
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.
Elizabeth Grant was a pharmacy proprietor and manager for many years. She was also a Member of the House of Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, 1979-1982.
Elaine Browne was demonstrator, senior tutor and lecturer in chemistry at the University of Tasmania 1958-1992. She made major research contributions in the field of heterocyclic chemistry.
Jessie Ferguson worked for Barrett Brothers and Burston, maltsters, 1937-1974, retiring as chief analytical chemist.