Margaret May-som Shaw Wu (born June 28, 1950) is a Taiwanese–American industrial chemist and inventor.
[citation needed] She moved to the United States for her doctoral research, and joined the department of chemistry at the University of Rochester.
[2] After earning her doctorate, Wu joined American Cyanamid where she spent a year as a research chemist.
[4][5] In 1977 Wu joined Mobil,[5] where she worked on polymer synthesis, catalysis and zeolite chemistry.
Her efforts were recognized by the American Chemical Society, who named her their 2007 Industrial Chemist of the Year.