Edith Humphrey
British inorganic chemist, the first British woman to earn a chemistry doctorate and as the chemist who first synthesized a chiral inorganic complex.
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Claudine Picardet
Claudine Picardet was notable in chemistry, mineralogy, and meteorology during the late 18th century.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Nobel Prize-winning British chemist renowned for her work in X-ray crystallography.
Michiyo Tsujimura
Michiyo Tsujimura (辻村みちよ) was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist known for her pioneering work on green tea components. She was the first woman in Japan to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture.
Elizabeth Helen Alexander
British scholar, painter and sculptor
Philomena Ryan
Irish chemist
Eva Philbin
Irish chemist and university professor
Dr Ruth Rogan Benerito
American chemist best known for her work on the development of easy-care cotton, a fabric that could resist wrinkles and stains.
Alice Ball
African-American chemist Alice Augusta Ball developed the “Ball Method”, the most effective treatment for leprosy of the early 20th century, but her work went unrecognised for many years because her white, male advisor stole her work after her untimely death at age 24.
Dr Mária Telkes
Dr. Telkes is best known for her invention of the solar water distiller and the first solar-powered heating system designed for residences. She also invented other devices capable of storing energy captured from sunlight.