page_title: Marguerite S. Chang
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Marguerite S. Chang / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: 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.
context_page_description: Marguerite Shue-wen Chang was a Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor, awarded the Federal Woman's Award in 1973 for her work in the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, based in Maryland.
context_section_description: Chang moved to the United States in 1946. From 1959 she worked at the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Maryland, developing propellants for missiles and rockets, working on safety procedures for the manufacture and use of propellants. 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.  
  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.).
  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. She was one of the six women to receive the Federal Woman's Award in 1973.
caption: Isabella Karle, John Warner (Secretary of the Navy), and Marguerite S. Chang, from a 1973 annual report of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
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