Born: 29 March 1929, Azerbaijan
Died: 8 January 2020
Country most active: Azerbaijan
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.
Fazila Ibrahim gizi Samadova (1929-2020) was an Azerbaijani academician, chemical engineer-technologist who graduated from the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (1951) and went on to postgraduate studies at the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas with her dissertation on “The effect of the chemical composition of oils on their performance properties”(1955).
Her career at the Chemistry and Technology of Oils department, Azerbaijan State Institute of Petrochemical Processes led to her becoming a professor (1987), and extremely prolific author of reports and patents.