Editing Brigitte Boisselier (section)

==Early life and education==
Brigitte Boisselier was born to a Catholic family in France in 1956.{{sfn|Agence France-Presse 2002}}{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}} She was raised on a farm in [[Champagne-Ardenne]] and became interested in science while young.{{sfn|Agence France-Presse 2002}}{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}} She attended the [[University of Dijon]], earning a master's degree in biochemistry and a PhD in chemistry.{{sfn|Agence France-Presse 2002}}{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}} In the 1980s, she moved to Texas, where she received another PhD in chemistry from the [[University of Houston]].{{sfn|Agence France-Presse 2002}}{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}}

Boisselier returned to France in 1984 to work for [[Air Liquide]], an industrial gas company, where she remained for 13 years.{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}} At that time, she lived in [[Les Loges-en-Josas]] and worked as a research chemist and a sales manager in [[Lyon]].{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}}{{sfn|BBC News 2003}}{{sfn|Palmer|2004|p=178}} She married and had three children between the late 1970s and early 1990s.{{sfn|Associated Press 2003}}{{sfn|BBC News 2003}}{{sfn|''Miami Herald'' 2002}}