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]
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Pisa University System logo
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
    
    
References
    
- "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)
 - 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
 
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