Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli

Maria Luisa Righini-Bonelli (11 November 1917 – 18 December 1981) was an Italian science historian and educator.

She served as vice-president of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. She was a member of the International Academy of the History of Science and the Italian consultant for the Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

Righini-Bonelli was editor or founder for various journals on the history of science: editor of Rivista di Storia della Scienza, Medice e Naturale from 1943 to 1956 founded the journal Physis in 1959, serving as its editor until 1978 founded Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in 1976, serving as editor until 1981

In 1983, the Institut et Musée de l'histoire de la science established a scholarship in her name.