People/Characters Laura Bassi
Works (6)
- Disgusting Digestion by Nick Arnold
- Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars by Margaret Wertheim
- Women in Physics by Mary Wissinger
- Scientists Anonymous: Great Stories of Women in Science by Patricia Fara
- Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe: The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy's Pioneering Female Professor by Monique Frize
- Storie e vite di super donne che hanno fatto la scienza by Gabriella Greison
Description
| Description | Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711–1778) was an Italian academic and lecturer. She was the first woman to be appointed to a university professorship when she became professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. |