Giuseppina Pastori

Giuseppina Pastori (12 October 1891 – 13 July 1983) was an Italian physician and biologist. She worked at the University of Milan, researching histology, and then became a lecturer of histology and professor of biology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She was initially denied permission to take up the role by the Vatican. Her younger sister, Maria Pastori, was professor of mathematics at the University of Milan.

Life Pastori was born in Milan, Italy, in 1891 to a family of eight children. Her father was a groundskeeper, and her mother a lacemaker. the Vatican gave permission for Pastori to take on the roles.

Pastori retired in 1961, but continued to publish and lecture into her seventies. She died in 1983.