Laura Bassi
Physicist, Deceased Person
1711 – 1778
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Who was Laura Bassi?
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi was the first woman in the world to earn a university chair in a scientific field of studies. She received a doctoral degree from the University of Bologna in May 1732, only the third academic qualification ever bestowed on a woman by a European university, and the first woman to earn a professorship in physics at a university in Europe. She was the first woman to be offered an official teaching position at a university in Europe.
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