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On Saturday, the search engine featured Laura Maria Catarina Bassi, an Italian physicist and professor who was a pioneer for women in science. Born in 1711, Bassi debated top academics on the history of philosophy and physics by age 20, an impressive achievement given that women were largely excluded from higher education during that time. “On this day in 1732, Bassi successfully defended 49 theses to become one of the first women in Europe to receive a PhD,” Google wrote. Becoming a household… Source link

Bassi married a doctor, who was also an anatomy lecturer at the university, and they had 8 children. Google Saturday’s Google Doodle honors physicist Laura Bassi, the first woman to earn a doctorate in science. Bassi spent much of her 46-year career exploring the physics of electricity and popularizing Isaac Newton’s ideas about motion and gravity. She also fought for decades to be allowed to teach, research, and publicly present her work on the same terms as her male… Source link