Pisa University System
The Pisa University System (Italian: Sistema Universitario Pisano) is a network of higher education institutions in Pisa, Italy. The following three schools and universities belong to the system:[1]
Overview
[edit]| Institutions | Abbreviation | Founded | Students | Motto |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pisa Università di Pisa |
UniPi | 1343 | 49,618 | In supreme dignity In supremæ dignitatis |
| Scuola Normale Superiore Scuola Normale Superiore |
la Normale | 1810 | 550 | |
| Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna |
SSSA | 1987 | 1,652 | Committed to excellence L'eccellenza come disciplina |
International rankings
[edit]- The Academic Ranking of World Universities puts the University of Pisa at the first place in Italy (National Rank # 1)[2] and within the best 30 universities in Europe.[3]
- As part of the Pisa University System, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has also been mapped by Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings as one of the most important educational institutions in Italy (section on Italy i.e. Top universities and specialisms ),[4][5] having its Graduate/Postgraduate Profile.[6]
- Also, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies together with Scuola Normale Superiore are named as leading institutions in [7]
- According to QS World University Rankings, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is part of the initiative Invest Your Talent in Italy[8] which puts Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage.[9]
- The European Research Ranking, a ranking based on publicly available data from the European Commission database puts Pisa University System among the best in Italy and best performing European research institutions.[10]
- La Voce, published a ranking of Italian universities by h-index, where Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies acquires the first (#1) place in Italy.[11]
Notable alumni and faculty
[edit]I. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel prize winner
- Carlo Rubbia, physicist and Nobel prize winner
- Giosuè Carducci, poet and Nobel prize winner
- Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
- Lamberto Cesari, mathematician
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former Governor of the Banca d'Italia, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the Italian Republic
- Massimo D'Alema (withdrew), politician, former Italian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Guido Fubini, mathematician
- Giovanni Gentile, philosopher and politician
- Carlo Ginzburg, historian
- Ennio De Giorgi, mathematician, solved the 19th Hilbert problem, won Wolf Prize (1990)
- Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Republic of Italy
- Fabio Mussi (withdrew), former Italian Minister of the University
- Leonida Tonelli, mathematician
- Vito Volterra, mathematician
- Giancarlo Wick, physicist
- Riccardo Barbieri, physicist
- Riccardo Rattazzi, physicist
- Jiyuan Yu, philosopher
II. Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
- Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution
- Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia
- Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
- Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica
- Enrico Letta, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy), former Prime Minister of Italy
- Antonio Maccanico, Minister in the Italian Republic
- Marcello Spatafora, President of the United Nations Security Council in 2007
- Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and writer
- Vittorio Grilli, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (government of Mario Monti)[12]
- Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal[13]
- Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy
- Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies[14]
III. University of Pisa
- Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
- Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity[15]
- Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics[15]
- Carlo Rubbia, particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer
- Francesco Accarigi, professor of civil law
- Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, studied at the Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore
- Andrea Bocelli, tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist
- Andrea Camilleri, writer (ad honorem)
- Giosuè Carducci, poet, 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician, known for his work on the problems of optics and motion
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 73rd former Prime Minister of Italy, tenth President of the Italian Republic
- Pope Clement XII
- Massimo D'Alema, former 77th Prime Minister
- Giovanni Gentile, minister and neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher
- Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Italian Republic
- Girolamo Maggi, 16th century scholar
- Guido Fubini, mathematician
- Mario Monicelli, movie director
- Alessandro Natta, former secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI)
- René Préval, President of Haiti
- Carlo Sforza, President of the Italian National Consult, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Adriano Sofri, writer
- Tiziano Terzani, journalist and writer
- Elio Toaff, former Chief Rabbi of Rome
- Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, 19th century surgeon
- Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.[16][17]
- François Carlo Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician from 1818 to his death in 1821.
- Stefano Arduini, scholar of linguistics, rhetoric, semiotics and translation
- Adolfo Bartoli, physicist, known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations
- Enrico Betti, mathematician, known for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers
- Luciano Bianciardi, journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels
- Emilio Bizzi, neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sandro Bondi, politician, Culture Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet
- Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro[18][19]
- Philippe Buonarroti, 18th century egalitarian and utopian socialist, revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason
- Piero Calamandrei, author, jurist, soldier, university professor and politician
- Francesco Cappè, United Nations official, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)[20]
- Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.[21]
- Antonio Cassese, jurist who specialized in public international law, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
- Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
- Carlo Chiti, Italian racing car and engine designer, best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department
- Mauro Cristofani, linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies
- Luigi Fantappiè, mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals
- Lando Ferretti, journalist, politician and sports administrator
- Clara Franzini-Armstrong, FMRS an American electron microscopist,[22] and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.[23][24]
- Luca Gammaitoni, scientist in the area of noise and nonlinear dynamics
- David Levi (Italy), Italian-Jewish poet and patriot
- Lorenzo Magalotti, philosopher, author, diplomat and poet
- Paolo Malanima, Italian economic historian
- Alessandro Natta, politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988
- Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian from Italy, diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Francesco Redi, 17th century physician, naturalist, and poet
- Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century
- Luigi Rizzi (linguist), linguist
- Giovanni Salvemini, FRS, 18th century mathematician and astronomer
- Atto Tigri, 19th century anatomist
External links
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Pisan University System". Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ "Home". arwu.org.
- ^ Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
- ^ Top universities and specialisms Article "Invest your talent in Italy: graduate study opportunities in Southern Europe" in Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings on Sat, 09/15/2007 Archived 12 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Article "Top ten things to do while studying abroad in... Italy" in Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings Archived 28 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Graduate/Postgraduate Profile of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna at Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Italy's six top higher education institutes by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
- ^ "Invest your Talent in Italy" programme by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development
- ^ "Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage" Article by QS World University Rankings on 13 June, 2011 Archived 25 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ European Research Ranking 2010
- ^ RICERCA PER INDICE H. di Daniele Checchi e Tullio Jappelli, 16.12.2008 Archived 7 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vittorio Grilli vice ministro Economia
- ^ Giovanni Dosi CV
- ^ Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer)
- ^ a b Snow, C. (1981). The Physicists: A Generation that Changed the World. Little Brown. ISBN 1-84232-436-5.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pisa University System", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Pisa University System at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Borgia, Cesare. Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Web. 20 February 2011.
- ^ World Book Encyclopedia. Borgia, Cesare. Archived 12 July 2012 at archive.today Web. 20 February 2011.
- ^ National press agency Ansa (12-08-2010) Ban Ki-Moon. "UNICRI is one of the three most active Agency against terrorism"
- ^ "Adán Cárdenas". MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
- ^ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Biophysical Society
- ^ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania
- ^ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine