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Mary Bucher

Chemical engineer who earned her MSc from Ohio State University in 1930

The third woman to graduate in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay; when she was appointed as the president of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (2017-19) it was the first time any chemical engineer had taken that role.

Dr Marie Louise Compernolle

Marie Louise Compernolle (1909– 2005) was the first female Flemish chemical engineer.

Maria Elisabeth Stellwag-Bes

Considered to be the first woman to receive an engineering diploma (1904) in the Netherlands, as the first female student at TUDelft

María Cegarra Salcedo

The woman considered to be Spain’s first female to graduate in chemistry was María Cegarra Salcedo (1899-1993) but she is better known for her later career as a poet.

María De La Luz Ostalé

One of the first female chemical engineering graduates from the Escuela de Ingeniería Química, in Valparaiso, Chile in 1955

Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa

South African chemical engineer and politician

Dr Belkis Valdman

Brazilian chemical engineer

Arlene A Spadafino

The City College of New York’s first female MSc graduate in chemical engineering (1966) and their first female Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department.