The first Euro-American woman to live permanently on San Juan Island, she also served as a community leader and role model for hundreds of women who braved the primitive conditions of the island’s early settlement years.
20th century Russian chemist and engineer, who was the first to synthesise alkene complexes of platinum, discovered heptavalent states of plutonium and other actinides and created and improved processes for radionuclide production.
Norwegian chemical engineer
Possibly the first woman to graduate in chemical engineering in Australia, Valeria Blakey gained her Bachelors in Applied Science (Industrial Chemistry) from The University of Queensland, in 1950.
Tuanku Zara Salim is married to the reigning Sultan of Perak in Malaysia. Before her marriage to the Sultan she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur.
Bulgarian professor at the Institute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, researching the processing of fossil fuels, biomass and methods for synthesizing high-tech carbon materials.
French chemical engineer and advocate for girls in STEM
One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova (b. 1939) specialised in the synthesis and application of multiblock copolymers and coatings, holding many patents.
When Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno (1891-1974) was granted a Diploma as Chemical Engineer, Assayer, Metallurgist and Metallographer in 1917at the Jalisco Free School of Engineering, it was the first engineering degree awarded to any woman in Mexico.