A statue of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia in Padua University Italy, the first woman in the world to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Elena Cornaro, (born June 5, 1646, Venice [Italy]—died July 26, 1684, Padua), Italian savant who was the first woman to receive a degree from a university. Cornaro's father, Giovanni Battista Cornaro Piscopia, was a nobleman
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