Patimah Moerwani (30 December 1927 – 22 July 2021) was an Indonesian chemist and academic administrator from the University of Indonesia who became the dean of the university's faculty of exact sciences and natural sciences from 1974 to 1978 and dean of the faculty of math and natural sciences of the Indonesia Open University.
Born on 30 December 1927 in Sukabumi,[1] Patimah graduated high school in Bandung in 1949.
In the midst of her studies, the university's engineering faculty and the exact sciences and natural sciences faculty were separated to form the Bandung Institute of Technology.
[2][3] Patimah began teaching chemistry at the University of Indonesia in 1969.
[2] She specialized in environmental chemistry[4] and wrote the standard Indonesian chemistry dictionary, which was produced under the auspices of Majlis Bahasa Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia, the language organization in standardizing and harmonizing spelling and terminology among Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.