Laura Bassi

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Laura Bassi was an 18th-century Italian physicist and academic who became the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field and a pioneering figure for women in higher education.

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instanceOf academic
human
physicist
pioneer of women in science
university professor
academicDiscipline natural philosophy
physics
areaOfInfluence Italian higher education
history of women in science
causeOfFame breaking gender barriers in university science positions
countryOfCitizenship Italy
educatedAt University of Bologna
employer University of Bologna
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName Bassi
fieldOfWork electricity
natural philosophy
physics
genre academic disputation
scientific lecture
givenName Laura
hasNotableStudent students of physics at the University of Bologna
hasRole professor of physics
university chair holder in a scientific field
influenced women in science and academia
influencedBy Enlightenment natural philosophy
Isaac Newton
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
memberOf Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna
surface form: Bologna Academy of Sciences
movement Enlightenment science
name Laura Bassi self-link
nativeLanguage Italian
notableAchievement first woman to hold a chair of physics at a university
notableFor being the first woman to earn a university chair in a scientific field
early research and teaching in Newtonian physics in Italy
pioneering role for women in higher education
occupation academic
physicist
university professor
residence Bologna
sexOrGender female
significantEvent appointment to a university chair in a scientific field as a woman
participation in scientific academies in Bologna
workLocation Bologna

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