Caroline Langat Thoruwa
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Caroline Langat Thoruwa is a Kenyan
chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a graduated scientist trained in the study of chemistry, or an officially enrolled student in the field. Chemists study the composition of ...
. She is a
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of
chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...
at
Kenyatta University Kenyatta University (KU) is a public university with its main campus in Nairobi, Kenya. It acquired the status of university in 1985, being the third university after University of Nairobi (1970) and Moi University (1984). As of October 2014, it ...
, and the director of its Nairobi City
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. Langat Thoruwa is also the chairperson of African Women in
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and
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, a member of the board of the International Network Women Engineers & Scientists, and a member of the technical committee of ACTIL Knowledge Hub.


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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Kenyan chemists Kenyan women chemists 21st-century chemists 21st-century Kenyan women scientists {{Kenya-bio-stub