1711 - 1778
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laura Bassi has received more than 498,661 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Laura Bassi is the 164th most popular physicist (down from 135th in 2019), the 788th most popular biography from Italy (down from 675th in 2019) and the 5th 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, Laura Bassi ranks 164 out of 717. Before her are Michio Kaku, Willard Boyle, Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, Donald A. Glaser, and Polykarp Kusch. After her are Georges Charpak, Benjamin Thompson, James Rainwater, Syukuro Manabe, Leon Cooper, and Robert H. Goddard.
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 158
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 160
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 161
1926 - 2013
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 162
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 163
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 164
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 165
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 166
1917 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 167
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 168
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 169
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 170
Among people born in 1711, Laura Bassi ranks 6. Before her are David Hume, Qianlong Emperor, Mikhail Lomonosov, Roger Joseph Boscovich, and William IV, Prince of Orange. After her are Barbara of Portugal, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Ablai Khan, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. Among people deceased in 1778, Laura Bassi ranks 6. Before her are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, Carl Linnaeus, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Anna Maria Mozart. After her are James Hargreaves, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, Thomas Arne, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, and Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo.
1711 - 1776
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 1
1711 - 1799
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 2
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 3
1711 - 1787
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 4
1711 - 1751
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 5
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 6
1711 - 1758
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 7
1711 - 1794
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 8
1711 - 1780
HPI: 59.60
Rank: 9
1711 - 1741
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 10
1711 - 1781
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 11
1711 - 1753
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 12
1712 - 1778
HPI: 89.83
Rank: 1
1694 - 1778
HPI: 87.55
Rank: 2
1707 - 1778
HPI: 87.29
Rank: 3
1720 - 1778
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 4
1720 - 1778
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 5
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 6
1720 - 1778
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 7
1721 - 1778
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 8
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 9
1717 - 1778
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 10
1708 - 1778
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 11
1701 - 1778
HPI: 53.76
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Laura Bassi ranks 788 out of 4,668. Before her are Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Peter, King of Hungary (1011), and Italo Balbo (1896). After her are Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671), Poliziano (1454), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Herod Agrippa II (28), Curzio Malaparte (1898), and Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776).
135 BC - 84 BC
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 782
1866 - 1924
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 783
1271 - 1295
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 784
1480 - 1556
HPI: 64.53
Rank: 785
1011 - 1050
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 786
1896 - 1940
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 787
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 788
1671 - 1737
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 789
1454 - 1494
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 790
1720 - 1806
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 791
28 - 100
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 792
1898 - 1957
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 793
1776 - 1847
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 794
Among physicists born in Italy, Laura Bassi ranks 5. Before her are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), and Luigi Galvani (1737). After her are Emilio Segrè (1905), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Carlo Rubbia (1934), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).
1745 - 1827
HPI: 83.08
Rank: 1
1608 - 1647
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 2
1901 - 1954
HPI: 77.48
Rank: 3
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 4
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 5
1905 - 1989
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 7
1618 - 1663
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 8
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 9
1746 - 1822
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 10
1934 - Present
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 11
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 12