Marguerite S. Chang

She earned a master's degree and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Tulane University,[2] where she was an associate member of the Sigma Xi honor society.

[4] The couple moved to the United States together in 1946, and had two sons while Marguerite Chang was a graduate student at Tulane University.

[2] She was named as an inventor on several patents, assigned to the United States government between 1976 and 1986, for processes, production methods and chemical compositions.

[6] Chang's scientific publications included "The Identification of C32H20N4O8, a Product from Acetophenone and Nitric Acid" (Journal of the American Chemical Society 1960, with Joseph H. Boyer), and "Bis(cyclopropanecarbonyl)furoxan" (Journal of Organic Chemistry 1968, with James U. Lowe Jr.).

[7] Chang is included in Conversations 760-009 and 871-009 of the White House Tapes, in the Oval Office for a photo sessions with President Richard Nixon and others in August 1972 and March 1973.

Isabella Karle, John Warner, and Marguerite Chang pose for a photo. Both women are holding awards. Karl is a white woman, smiling; Warner is a white man in a tuxedo; Chang is a Chinese woman with grey hair, smiling.
Isabella Karle , John Warner (Secretary of the Navy), and Marguerite S. Chang, from a 1973 annual report of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory .