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Lau­ra Maria Cate­ri­na Bassi received her Ph.D. at 21 years of age. She was the first woman to earn a pro­fes­sor­ship in physics at a uni­ver­si­ty. As a trail­blaz­er for women in STEM, she was one of the first women in sci­ence to accom­plish so much! Her sto­ry is tru­ly memorable. 

Pappus and Pandrosion:  the curmudgeon and the professor

Pappus and Pandrosion: the curmudgeon and the professor

There is a paper on Acad­e­mia that I post­ed years ago, proud­ly claim­ing that Hypa­tia was the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. It’s hum­bling what years of research will teach you. It so turns out that Hypa­tia was NOT the world’s first female math­e­mati­cian. Oth­er women taught math­e­mat­ics long before Hypa­tia, includ­ing the math­e­mati­cian Pan­dro­sion. She was one of the first

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