Cornelia Fabri

Cornelia Fabri
Born	(1869-09-09)9 September 1869
Died	24 May 1915(1915-05-24) (aged 45)
Citizenship	Italian
Education	Scuola Normale Superiore
Alma mater	University of Pisa
Academic advisors	Vito Volterra
Known for	mathematics

Cornelia Fabri (9 September 1869 Ravenna – 24 May 1915 Florence) was an Italian mathematician.

She was the first woman to graduate in mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa on 30 June 1891.^[1]

Life

She was the daughter of Roger Fabri and Lucrezia Satanassi de Sordi,^[2] a noble family from Livorno, breathed in her family's interest in scientific disciplines. Her grandfather majored in mathematics at the University of Bologna and devoted himself to the teaching of this subject in the College of Ravenna. Roger Fabri, her father, devoted himself to scientific study, graduating from the University La Sapienza of Rome, in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and here he held the role of Assistant to Paul Volpicelli. He returned to Ravenna, where he held various administrative positions, leaving out an academic career, but continued to cultivate in private their scientific interests. Even as a child Cornelia showed natural aptitude for science, in fact enrolled, in a Technical Institute of his city, with the approval of his father, instead of in a girls' school, as was common at the time, the only woman in a male class. Cornelia gets the highest marks and managed to be admitted to the University of Pisa. where she graduated with highest honors from 30 June 1891.

Her teacher Vito Volterra, mathematical physicist, who was President of the Academy of the Lincei, one of the greatest minds of the time, who followed her throughout her academic career who wrote:

I retain vivid memory of Miss Cornelia Fabri, my pupil at the University of Pisa in 1880, the first, and perhaps the best, among the many students who had later in Turin and Rome. I remember her graduation exam was an event for the University of Pisa, not only because for the first time there was a woman with a doctorate, but also because the evidence was supported admirably by the candidate, who brought absolute honors and praise. On that occasion the Distinguished Dean of the Faculty of Science, Professor Antonio Pacinotti, made high and appropriate words sensing the importance of the event, and by providing for the opening of a new era with the entry in the field of science, eminent female personalities ...^[3]

Her scientific work was intense but short. In fact, after the death of her parents, in 1902 she left her academic career to return to Ravenna and manage the family property. Always very religious, Cornelia devoted himself to charitable activities of charity and charity, especially on behalf of children. She died in Florence on May 24 as a result of pneumonia.

Her hometown, Ravenna, has named a street after her.^[4][5]

Writings

• Above some general properties of functions that depend on other functions and lines. Cornelia Fabri, Turin, Claudio Clausen, 1890.
• Brief remarks around to new disciplines for the church on the river Montone, Ravenna, Calderini, 1892.
• On whirling motions in perfect fluids. Memory Cornelia Fabri, Bologna, Gamberini and Parmeggiani, 1892.
• On theoretical swirling motion in incompressible fluids, Pisa, Mistri & C, 1892.
• Cloche-signal electrique installée par l'Abbee Ravaglia dans le port de Ravenne, Paris, A. Durand et Pedaue-Lauriel, 1893.
• Above the iperspazii functions. Cornelia Note Fabri, Venice, Ferrari, 1893.
• The swirling motion of higher order in relation to the equations pel of viscous fluid motion, Bologna, Gamberini, 1894.
• The swirling motion of a higher order in relation to the equations pel motion of viscous compressible fluids, in 1895.

References

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Italian Wikipedia.