Bavelile Gloria Hlongwa
South African chemical engineer and politician
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Dr Olga Konstantinovna Bogdanova
Soviet chemical engineer, specialising in organic catalysis, synthetic rubber and butadines. In WW2 she developed a synthetic rubber coating for tanks and aircraft, which was self-healing when struck by bullets.
Dr Belkis Valdman
Brazilian chemical engineer
Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon
Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.
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