What the name of world first female engineer?

Answer 1

Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu

Widely recognized as the world's first female engineer, Eliza Leonida was born in Galati ( a sort of Manchester of the East), on November 10, 1887, in a family of an army officer with 11 children. She attended the primary school in his hometown and then high school at Central School for Girls in Bucharest, graduating with a Baccalaureate/ High School diploma in mathematics department of "Michael the Brave" High school .

With an uncle and a brother both power engineers, Eliza wanted to prove that women can be successful in a technical field too. Due to the prejudices of those time she was however rejected by the School of Bridges and Roads in Bucharest. She was hardly accepted at the Royal Academy of Technology Berlin, despite the fact that Germans teachers tried to hinder her enrolment, and her male fellow students banned her from attending the Freshman prom.

Nevertheless she graduated from University in 1912, with a specialization in chemistry, becoming the first woman engineer in the world.

She returned home and joined the Geological Institute, where she worked until 1963. IDuring the war, she led many Red Cross hospitals, and she was decorated at the end of the war. In 1918 she married the chemist Constantin Zamfirescu (the writer Duiliu Zamfirescu's brother) and Queen Mary attended the wedding.

Throughout her career at the Geological Institute she was in charge of 12 laboratories and 85,000 analyses helping to identify new resources of coal, oil shale, oil, gas, construction stone, chrome, bauxite and copper on the Romanian territory , which she also wrote several books about.

While a reputedengineer, Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu also taught physics and chemistry at various high schools in Bucharest. She was the first female member of AGIR (GARE - General Association of Romanian Engineers) and was a member of the International Association of University Women.

She died at the age of 86 on November 25, 1973.

In honour of her achievements a prize with her name is awarded annually for one outstanding female personality in science and technology. A street was named after Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu in her native city, Galati, and since 1993, a street in Bucharest bears her name too.