Marguerite Massart

Marguerite Massart
Born19 September 1900
Brussels, Belgium
Died25 February 1979 (1979-02-26) (aged 78)
Ghent, Belgium
OccupationEngineer
SpouseGustave Vynckier

Marguerite Massart (1900–1979) was the first woman to graduate as an engineer in Belgium. She set up a successful foundry business in Ghent and later introduced a desalinisation project and early solar panels in the first hotel on Sal Island in Cape Verde.