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]

• Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
• Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
• University of Pisa

Overview

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

• 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

I. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

• Riccardo Barbieri, physicist
• Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
• Giosuè Carducci, poet and Nobel Prize winner
• 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
• Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Alessio Figalli, mathematician and Fields Medal winner
• 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
• Riccardo Rattazzi, physicist
• Carlo Rubbia, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Leonida Tonelli, mathematician
• Vito Volterra, mathematician
• Giancarlo Wick, 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
• Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies ^[12]
• 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
• Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy
• Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal ^[13]
• Vittorio Grilli, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (government of Mario Monti) ^[14]
• 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

III. University of Pisa

• Francesco Accarigi, professor of civil law
• Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, studied at the Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore
• 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
• Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, 19th century surgeon
• 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
• Andrea Bocelli, tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist
• Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro ^{[15] [16]}
• Philippe Buonarroti, 18th century egalitarian and utopian socialist, revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason
• Piero Calamandrei, author, jurist, soldier, university professor and politician
• Andrea Camilleri, writer (ad honorem)
• Francesco Cappè, United Nations official, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) ^[17]
• Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887. ^[18]
• Giosuè Carducci, poet, 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature
• 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
• Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician, known for his work on the problems of optics and motion
• Carlo Chiti, Italian racing car and engine designer, best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department
• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 73rd former Prime Minister of Italy, tenth President of the Italian Republic
• Pope Clement XII
• Mauro Cristofani, linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies
• Massimo D'Alema, former 77th Prime Minister
• Luigi Fantappiè, mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals
• Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity ^[19]
• Lando Ferretti, journalist, politician and sports administrator
• Alessio Figalli, mathematician and Fields Medal winner
• Clara Franzini-Armstrong, FMRS an American electron microscopist, ^[20] and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania. ^{[21] [22]}
• Guido Fubini, mathematician
• Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
• Luca Gammaitoni, scientist in the area of noise and nonlinear dynamics
• Giovanni Gentile, minister and neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher
• Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Italian Republic
• David Levi (Italy), Italian-Jewish poet and patriot
• Lorenzo Magalotti, philosopher, author, diplomat and poet
• Girolamo Maggi, 16th century scholar
• Paolo Malanima, Italian economic historian
• Mario Monicelli, film director
• 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
• René Préval, President of Haiti
• Francesco Redi, 17th century physician, naturalist, and poet
• Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century
• Luigi Rizzi (linguist), linguist
• Carlo Rubbia, particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer
• Giovanni Salvemini, FRS, 18th century mathematician and astronomer
• Carlo Sforza, President of the Italian National Consult, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Adriano Sofri, writer
• Tiziano Terzani, journalist and writer
• Atto Tigri, 19th century anatomist
• Elio Toaff, former Chief Rabbi of Rome
• Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. ^{[23] [24]}

External links

• Official website

See also

• List of Italian universities

References

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