Episode 12 - Laura Bassi, part 3

She's back at it again! Tune in as Laura studies lots and lots of water, clarifies some exceptions to Boyle's Law, lends out her laboratory and skills to assist other scientists, and finally scores a physics chair despite, y'know, men Laura Bassi (and husband): Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe - The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy's Pioneering Female Professor, by Monique Frize, 2013 (book) "Science as a Career in Enlightenment Italy: The Strategies of Laura Bassi" Author(s): Paula Findlen Source: Isis, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Sep., 1993), pp. 441-469 "The Desire to Contribute: An Eighteenth-Century Italian Woman of Science" Author(s): Gabriella Berti Logan Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 99, No. 3 (Jun., 1994), pp. 785-812 a little more on Caldani/Fontana: Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), by Marco Bresadola, 1998 Vanadium oxide (exception to Wiedemann Franz rule):

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Episode 12 - Laura Bassi, part 3 is an episode from Battery Chattery by Hope Wilson & Ana Rigney.

This episode is 34:09 long.

This episode was published on Sep 5, 2018.

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