1. Margaret Rossiter, Women Scientists in America. Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982), xi.
2. Mildred Jeanne Peterson, Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 161.
3. Paula Gould, “Women and the Culture of University Physics in Late Nineteenth-Century Cambridge,” The British Journal for the History of Science 30, no. 2 (1997), 127–49.
4. Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the Eighteenth and the Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989); Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen, eds. and trans., The Contest for Knowledge: Debates Over Women’s Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); Raffaella Simili, ed. Scienza a Due Voci (Firenze: Olschki, 2006); Valeria P. Babini and Raffaella Simili, eds., More than Pupils: Italian Women in Science at the Turn of the 20th Century (Firenze: Olschki, 2008); Patricia Fara, A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
5. Archivio Amaldi Eredi (AAE), Department of Physics, Sapienza, University of Rome, fasc. 3, box 20. Here Amaldi incorrectly states that both Traube and Marchesini had degrees in physics: the first had instead graduated in natural sciences.