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Dr Adesina Aramide Adenike

Nigerian petrochemical academic

Dr Adisa Azapagić

Chemical engineer and academic from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has worked mainly in the UK

Amparo Barbra Cisneros

Amparo Barba Cisneros was part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943.

Dr Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova

Anna Ivanovna Glushenkova (1926-2017), worked most of her chemical engineering career in Uzbekistan, working mainly on extraction of lipids and oils from plants.

Christine Costner Sizemore

Mental health advocate on whom the Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is based

The first woman automotive engineer at Chrysler; by 1950 she was the Group Leader in the Chemical Research Department and worked on the LA smog project from 1957 until 1962 when she co-developed Chrysler’s Cleaner Air Package.

Zhenan Bao

As Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, she works mainly on organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors, for applications including flexible electronics.

Zinaida Yershova

Soviet chemical engineer, who worked in both industry and academia developing methods for the production of radioactive materials for the Soviet atomic bomb project and the space programme.