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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti  (1711 – 1778), an Italian physicist, was the first woman to earn a doctorate. EARLY LIFE Laura Bassi was born  in Bologna to a wealthy lawyer, Giuseppe Bassi, and his wife Maria Rosa Cesari. Her paternal grandfather, Giacinto Bassi, had run a chemists shop in Bologna, where natural-based medicines were prepared and sold. Laura was her parents’ only surviving child. They were an enlightened family for the time.. As an only child, Bassi was given an extensive education. Starting at the age of five she was taught by her cousin, Father Lorenzo Stegani, Latin, Frnch, and mathematics. She learned notRead More →