Born: 1918, Mexico (assumed)
Died: 2011
Country most active: Mexico
Also known as: NA
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
Amparo Barba Cisneros (1918–2011) started her degree in 1937, as part of the first generation of chemical engineers from Mexico’s National School of Chemical Sciences, and completed her professional exams in 1943. Her first job was with the Cove military footwear company but at the suggestion of Prof. Marcelino García Junco, one of her university professors she joined Syntex Research Laboratories in 1944, where progesterone was for the first time being made industrially from plant raw materials. The company sent her to do organic micro-chemical analysis studies in the United States and on her return, Amparo Barba became head of Syntex’s Microanalysis Department, until she too retired to look after her family in 1954.