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Laura Bassi

1711 - 1778

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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (29 October 1711 – 20 February 1778) was an Italian physicist and academic. Recognized and depicted as "Minerva" (goddess of wisdom), she was the first woman to have a doctorate in science, and the second woman in the world to earn the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Working at the University of Bologna, she was the first salaried female teacher in a university. At one time the highest paid employee of the university, by the end of her life Bassi held two other professorships. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laura Bassi is the 153rd most popular physicist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from Italy (up from 601st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Physicist.

Laura Bassi was an Italian physicist and mathematician who became the first woman to teach at a European university. She was also the first woman to receive a doctorate in physics from a European university.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Laura Bassi ranks 153 out of 851. Before her are Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, George Paget Thomson, Walter Houser Brattain, and Henry Moseley. After her are John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, Felix Bloch, and Hans Georg Dehmelt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Laura Bassi ranks 5. Before her are David Hume, Qianlong Emperor, Mikhail Lomonosov, and Roger Joseph Boscovich. After her are William IV, Prince of Orange, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Barbara of Portugal, Ablai Khan, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine. Among people deceased in 1778, Laura Bassi ranks 5. Before her are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carl Linnaeus, Voltaire, and William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. After her are Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Anna Maria Mozart, James Hargreaves, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Thomas Arne, and Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Laura Bassi ranks 596 out of 5,161. Before her are Pietro Aretino (1492), Pope Leo V (870), Lucilla (150), Salvatore Adamo (1943), Ennius (-239), and Giulio Caccini (1551). After her are Pope John XIII (930), Francesco Redi (1626), Pope Anastasius II (450), Propertius (-50), Servilia (-104), and Angelo Sodano (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Laura Bassi ranks 6. Before her are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), and Emilio Segrè (1905). After her are Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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