Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
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ItalyShe stood before the professors of Bologna in 1732 and defended forty-nine theses in one afternoon — then collected a doctorate, a university salary, and a seat in the Academy of Sciences before her twenty-second birthday, all firsts for a woman in Europe.
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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti was born on 29 October 1711 and tutored privately from age five, emerging at twenty fluent in mathematics and science without ever sitting in a classroom. Prospero Lambertini, the Archbishop of Bologna, noticed her and arranged the public defense on 17 April 1732; she earned her doctoral degree on 12 May and was appointed to teach at the University of Bologna a month later, though barred from all-male classes. Lambertini, by then Pope Benedict XIV, secured her permission for private teaching and experiments in 1740, and she became the most important popularis…
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