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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 ...

Two hundred years before Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, one of her most interesting predecessors, the physicist Laura Bassi (1711–78), was born in the city of Bologna. A ...

Laura Bassi was born in 1711 in Bologna, Papal States — the region known today as Italy — to a wealthy family. Due in part to her father’s financial standing, Bassi was privately educated from ages 5 ...