Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
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Judy Butland
Engineering software designer who pioneered the use of computers at universities, her ‘Butland curves’ software still being in use.
Isabel Hadfield
Chemical engineer Isabel Hadfield spent most of her career in research at the NPL.
Isabel Hardwich
Photometry expert and electrical engineer and WES activist.
Jane Plant
Geochemist, metallurgist and expert on the effects of environmental chemicals and diet in cancers.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Henrietta Vansittart
Henrietta Lowe Vansittart is often considered to be the first British woman to work as a ‘proper’ engineer or naval architect.
Henrietta Bussell
The UK’s first female railway engineer
Hilda M Lyon
In 1922 she became an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1925 joined the Royal Airship Works in Cardington.