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Dr Izzet Orujova

Initially a film actress, Izzet Khanim Mirzaaga Orujova (1909-1983) graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University in Baku as a petrochemical technologist (1932).

She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.

Dr Judy Raper

Hungarian-Australian chemical engineer

Léonie Abo

Congolese writer and activist Léonie Abo is best known for her role in the 1963-65 Kwilu rebellion.

Blanche Huber

Although Blanche Huber was the first woman in Malta to train as a doctor at university, graduating from the University of Malta in 1925, she never practiced medicine professionally, instead working as a pharmacist.

Dr Christine Grant

2022 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Dr Dorothy Quiggle

Petrochemical engineering specialist Dorothy Quiggle (1903-93) may be considered to be the first American woman to have a full career in chemical engineering.

Elizabeth Fulhame

In 1794 she published her “Essay on Combustion”, from which it is now possible to credit her with describing the process of catalysis, albeit without that term. She did hundreds of experiments to try to find a way to dye cloth with gold or other metals.