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page 1Women chemists
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
scientist and president of Mauritius

Mary the Jewess
alchemist who lived between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in Alexandria
Katerina Vitale
first female pharmacist and chemist in Malta
Cleopatra the Alchemist
3rd and 4th century Egyptian alchemist and author
Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer
Slovene chemist
Fazia al-Kharafi
Kuwaiti chemist
Hessy Levinsons Taft
German-Jewish model and chemist (1934–2026)
Jane Catherine Ngila
Kenyan chemist
Lydia Makhubu
Swazi chemist
Zohra Ben Lakhdar Akrout
Tunisian physicist

Albina Africano
Angola chemist and politician
Yolanda Ortiz
Argentine chemist and environmentalist

María Michelsen de López
Colombian scientist and First Lady of Colombia
Sayyora Rashidova
uzbek chemist scientist
Iolanda Cintura
Mozambican chemist and politician
Margarete Traube
German-Italian chemist and activist
Anna Glushenkova
Soviet Uzbek chemist
Rona Robinson
suffragette, first woman in the UK to be granted a first-class chemistry degree (1881-1962)
Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda
Cameroonian writer, chemist, paramount chief of the Ewondo people

Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly
first Burkinabe doctor of chemistry

Hubertine Rose Éholie
Ivorian academic

Sara Rietti
Argentine nuclear researcher
Women in chemistry
female contributors to the field of chemistry