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 ...
TODAY'S Google Doodle celebrates the life and achievements of Laura Bassi. The Italian physicist was one of the first women in Europe to receive a PhD. Laura Bassi was born in Bologna, Italy on 29 ...
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 ...