1. Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti was an Italian physicist and academic.
25 Facts About Laura Bassi
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At one time the highest paid employee of the university, by the end of her life Bassi held two other professorships.
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Laura Bassi was the first female member of any scientific establishment, when she was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna in 1732 at 21.
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Laura Bassi had no formal education and was privately tutored from age five until she was twenty.
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Laura Bassi became the most important populariser of Newtonian mechanics in Italy.
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Laura Bassi was inducted by the Pope to the Benedettini as an additional member in 1745.
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Laura Bassi took up the Chair of Experimental Physics in 1776, the position she held until her death.
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Laura Bassi is interred at the Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna.
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Laura Bassi was born in 1711 in Bologna, to a prosperous lawyer Giuseppe Laura Bassi and his wife Maria Rosa Cesari.
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Stegani not only taught her to read Latin, as was more typical, but taught Laura Bassi to speak and write in Latin.
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Laura Bassi lectured and published in Latin during her academic career.
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Laura Bassi was by then popularly known as Bolognese Minerva.
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Laura Bassi's theses covered a wide range of subjects such as chemistry, physics, hydraulics, mathematics, mechanics and techniques.
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Laura Bassi became the first salaried woman lecturer in the world, thus beginning her academic career.
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Laura Bassi was again denied, but she was allowed to start private lessons and granted funds for experiments at her home in 1759.
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The Senate expected Laura Bassi to attend various events because she was a symbol and political figure.
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Laura Bassi was mainly interested in Newtonian physics and taught courses on the subject for 28 years.
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Laura Bassi was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.
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Laura Bassi carried out experiments of her own in all aspects of physics.
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Laura Bassi continually supported the University of Bologna and intervened when other members of the institute tried to segregate Bassi from the rest of the professors.
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Laura Bassi had deteriorating health attributed to her many pregnancies and childbirth complications.
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Laura Bassi's funeral was held at the Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, where silver laurels were put on her head and she was paid tribute by members of the Benedettina.
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Laura Bassi was interred in the church in Via Tagliapietre, in front of the tomb of her fellow scientist Luigi Galvani.
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Laura Bassi was an elected member of many literary societies and carried on an extensive correspondence with the most eminent European men of letters.
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Laura Bassi was well acquainted with classical literature, as well as with the literature of France and Italy.