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

## Contents

* 1 International rankings
* 2 Notable alumni and faculty
* 3 External links
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## International rankings

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

Italy Rankings |

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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

* Official website

## 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/Adán_Cárdenas.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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Universities in Italy

Major|

* Bari
* Bologna
* Catania
* Florence
* Milan
* Milan Polytechnic
* Naples Federico II
* Padua
* Palermo
* Pisa
* Rome La Sapienza
* Turin

Large|

* Cagliari
* Calabria
* Chieti–Pescara D'Annunzio
* Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
* Genoa
* L'Aquila
* Messina
* Milan Bicocca
* Milan Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
* Parma
* Pavia
* Perugia
* Rome III
* Rome Tor Vergata
* Salento
* Salerno
* Turin Polytechnic
* Verona

Medium|

* Bari Polytechnic
* Bergamo
* Brescia
* Ferrara
* Marche Polytechnic
* Milan Bocconi
* Modena and Reggio Emilia
* Naples Eastern
* Naples Parthenope
* Rome Marconi
* Rome Niccolò Cusano
* Sassari
* Siena
* Trento
* Trieste
* Udine
* Urbino
* Venice Ca' Foscari

Small|

* Aosta Valley
* Basilicata
* Bozen-Bolzano
* Bra Gastronomic Sciences
* Camerino
* Carlo Cattaneo
* Cassino
* Catanzaro
* Enna
* Florence SUM
* Foggia
* Insubria
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Lucca IMT
* ISIA
* Macerata
* Milan Humanitas
* Milan IULM
* Milan San Raffaele
* Molise
* Naples II
* Naples Benincasa
* Naples Pegaso
* Pavia IUSS
* Perugia Foreigners
* Pisa Normale
* Pisa Sant'Anna
* Ragusa
* Reggio Calabria
* Reggio Calabria Dante Alighieri
* Rome Biomedical
* Rome Foro Italico
* Rome Link Campus
* Rome LUISS
* Rome Maria SS. Assunta
* Sannio
* Siena Foreigners
* Teramo
* Trieste SISSA
* Turin ESCP
* Turin International College
* Tuscia
* Venice IUAV
* Vercelli Eastern Piedmont
* LUM
* Giustino Fortunato
* Rome International Studies

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