Laura Bassi
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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti was an Italian physicist and academic. Recognized and depicted as "Minerva", she was the first woman to have a doctorate in science, and the second woman in the worl
Portrait of Laura Bassi at the University of Bologna
Portrait of Laura Bassi (1732)
Elena Cornaro Piscopia
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Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was an Italian philosopher of noble descent in the Republic of Venice who in 1678 became one of the fi
Laura Bassi
…awarded Bassi a doctorate in philosophy. She became the second woman known to earn a doctorate in philosophy, fifty-four years after Venetian scholar Elena Cornaro Piscopia received one in 1678, and the first woman to receive a doctorate in science. She also became an honorary member of the university's College of Philosophers…
Elena Piscopia portrait
Thompson Memorial Library's window depicting Cornaro's conferral.