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)
Dr Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Greek-American chemical engineer
Margot Dorenfeldt
One of the first two women chemical engineers to graduate from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1919
Dr Margareta Nicolau
Romanian chemical engineer known for her work in the field of synthesis and characterization of acrylic compounds, much of which has been implemented in industry.
Margaret Aina Oguntala
Nigerian chemical engineer
Dr Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam
Indian chemical engineer
Dr Mamata Mukhopadhyay
The first Indian woman thought to be to have qualified as a chemical engineer, she gained her first class BChE in 1963 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Dr Mahmooda Sultana
Bangladeshi-American scientist specialising in graphene, nanomaterials, micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMs) devices, and sensors. Her USC BSc and MIT PhD from MIT (2010 took her to NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she led a team developing a nanomaterial-based detector platform.