Kathleen C. Taylor (born 1942) is a chemist who won the Garvan–Olin Medal in 1989, and is notable for developing catalytic converters for cars.
[1] Taylor attended Douglass College at Rutgers University, earning a bachelor's in chemistry in 1964.
[1][3] Following her Ph.D., she did postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh with Charles Kemball[2] where she worked on the use of deuterium to track reactions on catalysts.
[5][6] When Taylor was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, she was cited "for the development of automotive-exhaust catalytic systems and leadership in materials battery and fuel cell research".
[8] As of 2017, she was retired from General Motors,[9] but continued to consult at Columbia University and the United States Department of Energy on projects that reduce impacts on the environment.