Angelina Cabras (23 December 1898 – 19 June 1993) was an Italian

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and

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. She earned degrees in mathematics from the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the oldest universities in Europe and continues to play an impo ...

in 1924 and in physics from the

University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 alon ...

in 1927. She obtained a position in

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at Cagliari, later moving to the institute of theoretical mechanics there. Her research concerned higher dimensional rigid body dynamics, the

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, and

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. She was an

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in 1928.. She died in

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

in 1993.

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1898 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Italian mathematicians 20th-century women mathematicians 20th-century Italian women scientists Italian women mathematicians 20th-century Italian physicists Italian women physicists University of Turin alumni University of Cagliari alumni Academic staff of the University of Cagliari {{italy-mathematician-stub