PHYSICIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laura Bassi has received more than 514,384 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Laura Bassi is the 132nd most popular physicist (up from 164th in 2019), the 601st most popular biography from Italy (up from 786th 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

Among physicists, Laura Bassi ranks 132 out of 851. Before her are Val Logsdon Fitch, François Englert, Robert Coleman Richardson, Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, and Ernst Abbe. After her are Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, Hideki Yukawa, William Henry Bragg, Peter Grünberg, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel.

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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, Barbara of Portugal, Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Ablai Khan, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, and Georg Wilhelm Richmann. Among people deceased in 1778, Laura Bassi ranks 5. Before her are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carl Linnaeus, Voltaire, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. After her are Anna Maria Mozart, James Hargreaves, Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Thomas Arne, and Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Laura Bassi ranks 601 out of 5,161. Before her are Livius Andronicus (-280), Carlo Ponti (1912), Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545), Bianca Maria Sforza (1472), Pope Zephyrinus (150), and Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541). After her are Alexander of Battenberg (1857), Raffaella Carrà (1943), Pope Miltiades (250), Maurizio Gucci (1948), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583), and Pope Agapetus I (490).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

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), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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