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Valerie Randle
British chemist
Valerie Randle is a materials engineer who specialised in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering,[1] and has written a number of text books on the subject[2][3] She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998 and in the same year was awarded the Rosenhain Award[4] for achievements in Materials Science by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.[5] In 2004 she was invited as a guest of HM the Queen to a luncheon at Buckingham Palace for the 'top 180 female achievers in the country'.[6] From 2008 she has been included in Who's Who.[7] as part of increasing public recognition of scientists. She has made significant contributions in the field of materials engineering with over 150 indexed publications in the field.[8]