Yeo Bee Yin
Malaysian chemical engineer and politician
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Yomaira Pagán Torres
Puerto Rican chemical engineer
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.
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).
Janez Lawson
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.