Laura Bassi
1711-1778
Image: Austrian National Library
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Laura Bassi was an eighteenth-century physics professor and experimental physicist in Bologna, Italy. She was Europe’s first female physics professor and was the second woman to receive a university degree. In addition to lecturing and engaging in public debates, Bassi conducted her own research and opened a school for experimental physics that scholars across Europe attended.