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
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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
Bijal Mathkar
Research & Innovation Director at Solvay India
María Morton
Trained as a chemical engineer at the former Tacuba National School of Sciences (ENCQ), now UNAM’s Faculty of Chemistry, graduating in 1926, she went on to work was in the food industries
Nkateko Mathonsi
Resources analyst with Investec, having come from 6 years managing Impala Platinum’s nickel plant operation.
Hilda Mary Stroud
Hilda Mary Stroud (Mrs Derrick) AMIChemE (1920-80) joined the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1942
Faize Fatma Shevket
Faize Fatma Shevket (b. 1913) may have been Asia’s first woman to qualify as a chemical engineer.
Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova
Nelly Mihran Samichkovski-Gidikova (b. 1936) at the University of Sofia researched corrosion- and wear-resistant coatings for steel.
Dr Mojirade Monsurat Oloruntoba
Research and Development Officer at Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, one of the institutes of Nigeria’s National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure