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.
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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.
Rebeca Uribe Bone
Colombia’s first female chemical engineer
Dr Rumyana Stefanova Velichkova
One of the earliest Bulgarian women chemical engineers, she was an academic at the University of Sofia in her field of the kinetics and the mechanisms of cationic polymerization of vinyl monomers.
Azar Besharat Moayeri
Edinburgh’s first female graduate in chemical engineering
Rona Hatt
Generally considered as Canada’s first female Chemical Engineer, starting her studies at University of British Columbia (UBC) in 1917, graduating in applied sciences in 1922.
Randi Aletta Holwech
One of the first two women chemical engineers to graduate from Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1919