Organization:Pisa University System

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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]

International rankings

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities,[2] Italy Rankings:

Italy Rankings
Institution 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
University of Pisa (Università di Pisa) 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  • The Academic Ranking of World Universities puts Pisa University System at the first place in Italy (National Rank # 1) 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

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

See also

  • List of Italian universities

References

  1. ↑ "Pisan University System". http://www.unipi.it/english/university/uniandpisa/Pisan-University-System.htm_cvt.htm. 
  2. ↑ "Home". http://www.arwu.org/. 
  3. ↑ Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
  4. ↑ 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
  5. ↑ Article "Top ten things to do while studying abroad in... Italy" in Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings
  6. ↑ Graduate/Postgraduate Profile of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna at Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings
  7. ↑ Italy's six top higher education institutes by Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
  8. ↑ "Invest your Talent in Italy" programme by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development
  9. ↑ "Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage" Article by QS World University Rankings on 13 June, 2011
  10. ↑ European Research Ranking 2010
  11. ↑ RICERCA PER INDICE H. di Daniele Checchi e Tullio Jappelli, 16.12.2008
  12. ↑ Vittorio Grilli vice ministro Economia
  13. ↑ Giovanni Dosi CV
  14. ↑ Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer)
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Snow, C. (1981). The Physicists: A Generation that Changed the World. Little Brown. ISBN 1-84232-436-5. 
  16. ↑ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Pisa University System", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Volterra.html .
  17. ↑ Pisa University System at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  18. ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. Borgia, Cesare. Web. 20 February 2011.
  19. ↑ World Book Encyclopedia. Borgia, Cesare. Web. 20 February 2011.
  20. ↑ National press agency Ansa (12-08-2010) Ban Ki-Moon. "UNICRI is one of the three most active Agency against terrorism"
  21. ↑ "Adán Cárdenas". MSN Encarta. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080708213921/http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585779/Ad%C3%A1n_C%C3%A1rdenas.html. Retrieved 17 January 2008. 
  22. ↑ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Biophysical Society
  23. ↑ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania
  24. ↑ Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine



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