University of Pisa
Coordinates: 43°42′59.43″N 10°23′54.45″E / 43.7165083°N 10.3984583°E
Università di Pisa | |
![]() Seal of the University of Pisa | |
Latin: Universitas Pisana | |
Motto | In supremae dignitatis |
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Motto in English | In supreme dignity |
Type | Public |
Established | 1343[1] |
Rector | Paolo Mancarella |
Administrative staff | 1,900 |
Students | 46,000 |
Doctoral students | 3,500 |
Location | Pisa , Italy |
Campus | Urban/University town |
Sports teams | US Pisa |
Affiliations | ICoN, EUA, URA, PEGASUS |
Website | www |
The University of Pisa (Italian: Università di Pisa, UniPi) is a public research university located in Pisa, Italy. It was founded in 1343 by an edict of Pope Clement VI.[1] It is the 19th oldest extant university in the world and the 10th oldest in Italy.[2] The university is ranked within the top 10 nationally and the top 400 in the world according to the ARWU and the QS. It houses the Orto botanico di Pisa, Europe's oldest academic botanical garden, which was founded in 1544.
The University of Pisa is part of the Pisa University System, which includes the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. The university has about 50,000 students (of which 46,000 are undergraduate and postgraduate studies, and 3,500 are doctoral and specialization studies).
In the fields of philology and cultural studies, the University of Pisa is a leading member of ICoN, an inter-university consortium of 21 Italian universities supported by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, as well as a member of the European University Association, the Partnership of a European Group of Aeronautics and Space Universities network and the Cineca consortium. It's the only university in Italy which has become a member of the Universities Research Association.[3]
Among its notable graduates there are several national and foreign political leaders including two Italian presidents, five Popes, five Italian prime ministers and three Nobel Laureates as students, faculty or staff affiliates.
Pisa has an intense athletic rivalry with the University of Pavia, which traditionally culminates in the Pisa-Pavia Regatta ( ), the oldest competition of this kind in Italy, and second in Europe only to the Oxford Cambridge boat race.[citation needed]
In 2013, the University of Pisa finished with La Sapienza University of Rome in first place among the Italian universities, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.[4][5][6]
Organization and administration[]
The University of Pisa consists of 20 departments. These departments offers several courses in their related field of study:
- Information Engineering
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Computer Science
- Biology
- Earth Sciences
- Pharmacy
- Law
- Political Science
- Veterinary Sciences
PhD studies are usually offered and arranged by the departments. The lectures are mostly given in Italian, except for a number of courses at the faculty of foreign languages and literature, some scientific programmes, such as the international MSc in aerospace engineering (EuMAS), Master in Business Informatics, the Master of Science in Space Engineering[7] and the Master in Computer Science and Networking,[8] jointly offered with Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Students also have at their disposal a language centre, where they can attend courses in foreign languages, a sports centre (Cus Pisa) that arranges for many sports intramural leagues and allows sports practice in almost all the disciplines available in Italy, and three university refectories (Mense universitarie). The University of Pisa is not organized in the form of one unique campus, but rather its many buildings are scattered throughout the whole Pisa area, especially in the city centre.
Rankings[]
University rankings | |
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Global – Overall | |
ARWU World[9] | 201-300 |
QS World[10] | 389 |
THE World[11] | 301-350 |
National – Overall | |
ARWU National[citation needed] | 1-3 |
- In 2011, the University of Pisa came in first place among the Italian universities, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities and within the best 30 universities in Europe.[4][5][6]
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks University of Pisa among the 350 best world universities.[11]
- ranks University of Pisa among the top 100 European Universities for teaching.[12]
- QS World University Rankings ranks University of Pisa in the world's top 100 for Computer Science & Information Systems, Physics & Astronomy, Mathematics, Classics & Ancient History, Library & Information Management.[13]
- The U.S. News & World Report places the University of Pisa among the world's 300 best universities.[14]
- The European Research Ranking, a ranking based on publicly available data from the European Commission database, puts the University of Pisa among the best in Italy and the best performing European research institutions.[15]
Notable people[]
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Alumni[]
Notable people who have attended the University of Pisa include:
In politics and government:
- Italian political leaders
- Giacomo Acerbo
- Giuliano Amato
- Sandro Bondi
- Maria Chiara Carrozza
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Massimo D'Alema
- Giovanni Gronchi
- Guido Buffarini Guidi
- Enrico Letta
- Antonio Maccanico
- Fabio Mussi
- Alessandro Natta
- Marcello Pera
- Enrico Rossi
- Carlo Sforza
- Sidney Sonnino
- Paolo Emilio Taviani
- Foreign political leaders
- Deputy Prime Minister of Albania Spiro Koleka
- Ambassador Marcello Spatafora
- Prime Ministers of Greece Ioannis Kolettis and Diomidis Kyriakos
- Haitian President René Préval
- Nicaraguan President Adan Cardenas
- Prime Minister of Somalia Ali Mohammed Ghedi
In theology:
- Archbishop Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
- Cardinals
- Benedetto Accolti the Younger
- Pietro Accolti
- Francesco Barberini
- Cesare Borgia
- Giovanni Antonio Guadagni
- Francisco de Remolins
- Francesco Martelli
- Bandino Panciatici
- Raffaele Riario
- Giovanni Battista Tolomei
- Popes
- Clement IX
- Clement XII
- Leo X
- Paul III
- Urban VIII
- Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff
- Minister Angus Morrison
In science:
- Astrophysicists Paolo Farinella and Franco Pacini
- Biophysicist Clara Franzini-Armstrong
- Botanist Giovanni Arcangeli
- Geneticist Guido Pontecorvo (1907–1999)
- Mathematicians
- Aldo Andreotti
- Enrico Betti
- Vincenzo Brunacci
- Cesare Burali-Forti
- Bonaventura Cavalieri
- Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja
- Giovanni Ceva
- Luigi Fantappiè
- Alessio Figalli, winner of the 2018 Fields Medal
- Guido Fubini
- Christopher Hacon
- Giuseppe Lauricella
- Salvatore Pincherle
- Ferdinando Pio Rosellini
- Giovanni Salvemini
- Carlo Somigliana
- Vito Volterra
- Guido Zappa
- Neuroscientist Emilio Bizzi
- Physicians
- Vincenzo Chiarugi
- Paolo Macchiarini
- Francesco Redi
- Physicists
- Adolfo Bartoli
- Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti
- Ennio Candotti
- Nello Carrara
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Galileo Galilei
- Luca Gammaitoni
- Antonio Pacinotti
- Eligio Perucca
- Luigi Puccianti
- Franco Rasetti
- Vasco Ronchi
- Carlo Rubbia (1934–), co-winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics
In other fields:
- Egyptologists Edda Bresciani, Gianluca Miniaci and Ippolito Rosellini
- Fashion model Tania Bambaci
- Film directors Mario Monicelli, Paolo Virzì and Simone Rapisarda Casanova
- Historians Carlo Ginzburg, Camillo Porzio, and Mario Rosa
- Librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
- Philologist Gian Biagio Conte
- Philosophers
- Francesco Cattani da Diacceto
- Aldo Gargani
- Giovanni Gentile
- Anna Camaiti Hostert
- Eufrosin Poteca
- Jiyuan Yu
- Physiologist Hugo Kronecker (1839–1914)
- Tenors Andrea Bocelli and Francesco Rasi
Notable people who have attended the University of Pisa include:
- Agronomist Nazareno Strampelli
- Anatomist Atto Tigri
- Art historian and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
- Civil engineer Henry Willey Reveley
- Civil servant Bruno Ferrante
- Computer scientists
- Elisa Bertino
- Luca Cardelli
- Roberto Di Cosmo
- Diplomat Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo
- Economists Luigi Bodio and Paolo Malanima
- Engineer Giacinto Morera
- Intellectual Adriano Sofri
- International civil servant Francesco Cappè
- Journalists Lando Ferretti and Tiziano Terzani
- Jurists
- Giuseppe Averani
- Piero Calamandrei
- Francesco Carrara
- Antonio Cassese
- Italian Constitutional Court Judge Sabino Cassese
- Giovanni Lami
- Remus Opreanu
- Linguists Stefano Arduini and Luigi Rizzi
- Nobel Laureate in Literature Giosuè Carducci
- Managers Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, Luca Desiata
- Naturalist Gaetano Savi
- Physician François Carlo Antommarchi
- Poets
- Psychiatrist Silvano Arieti
- Racing car and engine designer Carlo Chiti
- Surgeon Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri
- Writers
- Pietro Citati
- Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
- Margaret King
- Antonio Tabucchi
- Zoologist Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Faculty and staff[]
Prominent scholars who have taught at the University of Pisa include:
In science:
- Anatomists Lorenzo Bellini and Marcello Malpighi
- Chemist Robert Schiff
- Computer scientist Egon Börger
- Engineer Corradino D'Ascanio
- Mathematicians
- Eugenio Beltrami
- Enrico Bombieri
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
- Sergio Campanato
- Benedetto Castelli
- Corrado De Concini
- Ennio De Giorgi
- Luigi Guido Grandi
- Alessandro Marchetti
- Claudio Procesi
- Leonida Tonelli
- Pathologist Angelo Maffucci
- Physicians Pietro Grocco and Paolo Mascagni
- Physicists
- Bernard H. Lavenda
- Carlo Matteucci
- Roy McWeeny
- Giulio Racah
- Gian-Carlo Wick
- Zoologist Enrica Calabresi
In other fields:
- Economist Giuseppe Toniolo
- Egalitarian Philippe Buonarroti, 18th century utopian socialist, revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason, mainly active in France
- Historians
- Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian from Italy, one of the most prominent diplomatic historians of the west Balkans region, and member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Pasquale Villari
- Journalist Luciano Bianciardi, translator and writer of short stories and novels
- Jurists
- Francesco Accarigi
- Carlo Costamagna
- Bartolus de Saxoferrato
- Baldus de Ubaldis
- Linguist Mauro Cristofani, researcher in Etruscan studies
- Philosophers
- Armando Carlini
- Arnold Davidson
- Dominic of Flanders
- Lorenzo Magalotti, author, diplomat and poet
- Ugo Spirito
- Poets
- Italian-Jewish poet & patriot David Levi
- Valerio Magrelli
- Giovanni Pascoli
- 16th-century scholar Girolamo Maggi
- Writer Bernard Comment
In popular culture[]
The University of Pisa is mentioned in the film Don Juan (1926). The central character in the TV series My Brilliant Friend (based on the novel by Elena Ferrante) attends and graduated from the university.
See also[]
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
- Pisa Charterhouse Natural History Museum
- Pisa University System
- École Normale Supérieure
- Superior Graduate Schools in Italy
- List of Italian universities
- List of medieval universities
- Pisa
- ICoN Interuniversity Consortium for Italian Studies
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hall-Quest, Alfred Lawrence (1976). "Pisa, University of". In William D. Halsey (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia. 19. New York: Macmillan Educational Corporation. p. 81.
- ^ List of oldest universities in continuous operation
- ^ "URA Universities". Archived from the original on May 15, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "ARWU Universities in Top 500 – Italy". Archived from the original on November 18, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gli atenei toscani nella top world 500". Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Le università di Pisa e Siena tra i primi 500 atenei al mondo at La Nazione
- ^ MSSE
- ^ MCSN
- ^ [1]
- ^ QS World University Rankings 2018
- ^ Jump up to: a b [2]
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ U.S. News & World Report College and University rankings 2011
- ^ European Research Ranking 2010
External links[]
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- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
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