In the history of science, Laura Bassi is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Laura Bassi as Italian physicist (1711-1778).
Laura Bassi was born at Bologna in 1711. Her recorded nationality is the Papal States. She was educated at University of Bologna.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives her occupations as physicist, university teacher and mathematician.
Her affiliations include University of Bologna.
Her principal work is On air compression. A scientific contribution counts if the next generation could build on it without re-checking.
Her recorded fields of work are physics, biology and anatomy.
That the work was done from the Papal States matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Laura Bassi died in 1778 at the age of 67. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Notable work: On air compression
- Affiliated with University of Bologna
- Educated at University of Bologna
- Worked as physicist, university teacher and mathematician
