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Margaret Melhase

As an undergrad in nuclear chemistry at Berkeley, Margaret Melhase discovered and isolated caesium-137.

Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.

Dr Emilie Snethlage

Dr. Emilie Snethlage dedicated all of her life to the study of Brazilian birds and to ethnological researches in the same country.

Lucy Everest Boole

Irish chemist

Margaret Newton

For her internationally recognized work in cereal rusts, Margaret was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1942, only the second Canadian woman to be so honored.