Pisa University System Explained

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

International rankings

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

• 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.
• 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^{[16] [17]}
• 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)^[18]
• Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.^[19]
• 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,^[20] and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.^{[21] [22]}
• 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

• Official website

See also

• List of Italian universities

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pisan University System . 4 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110708200623/http://www.unipi.it/english/university/uniandpisa/Pisan-University-System.htm_cvt.htm . 8 July 2011 . dead.
2. Web site: Home . arwu.org.
3. http://www.arwu.org/ Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
4. http://graduateschool.topuniversities.com/content/europe/invest-your-talent-italy-graduate-study-opportunities-southern-europe/ 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. http://www.topuniversities.com/articles/top-10-things-do-while-studying-abroad-italy Article "Top ten things to do while studying abroad in... Italy" in Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings
6. http://graduateschool.topuniversities.com/university/scuolasuperioresantannapisa/ 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. http://www.postgradinitaly.esteri.it/postgradinitaly "Invest your Talent in Italy" programme by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development
9. http://graduateschool.topuniversities.com/articles/italy/italian-graduate-programmes-worlds-stage "Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage" Article by QS World University Rankings on 13 June, 2011
10. http://www.researchranking.org/index.php?action=ranking&year=2010 European Research Ranking 2010
11. http://www.lavoce.info/articoli/pagina1000815.html RICERCA PER INDICE H. di Daniele Checchi e Tullio Jappelli, 16.12.2008
12. http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/topnews/2011/11/28/visualizza_new.html_12909676.html Vittorio Grilli vice ministro Economia
13. http://www.lem.sssup.it/cv/cv_gdosi.pdf Giovanni Dosi CV
14. https://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/11241 Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer)
15. Book: Snow, C. . 1981 . The Physicists: A Generation that Changed the World . . 1-84232-436-5.
16. Encyclopædia Britannica. Borgia, Cesare. Web. 20 February 2011.
17. World Book Encyclopedia. Borgia, Cesare. Web. 20 February 2011.
18. National press agency Ansa (12-08-2010) Ban Ki-Moon. "UNICRI is one of the three most active Agency against terrorism"
19. News: Adán Cárdenas. MSN Encarta. 17 January 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080708213921/http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761585779/Ad%C3%A1n_C%C3%A1rdenas.html. 8 July 2008. dead.
20. http://www.biophysics.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=tX8tD%2FOI7VE%3D&tabid=524 Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Biophysical Society
21. http://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g20001040/p9936 Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Emeritus Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
22. http://www.med.upenn.edu/pmi/members/armstrong.shtml Clara Franzini-Armstrong at Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine