Sofia Zarafidou
One of Greece’s earliest women to graduate from the National Technical University of Athens in engineering
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Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova
Vera Vladimirova Mircheva-Tabakova (b. 1939) specialised in the synthesis and application of multiblock copolymers and coatings, holding many patents.
Victoria de la Mora Vizcaíno
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.
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
Virginia Sink
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.