48 Notable alumni of
Normal School of Pisa
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The Normal School of Pisa is 966th in the world, 334th in Europe, and 20th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from the Normal School of Pisa sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Giuliano Amato
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- juristpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
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Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023, Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister.
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Carlo Rubbia
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- engineerphysicist
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Carlo Rubbia is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
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Antonio Tabucchi
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- writeruniversity teachertranslatorliteraturejournalist
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Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.
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Sabino Cassese
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- politicianjudgejurist
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Sabino Cassese is an Italian jurist, former minister for the public function in the Ciampi government (1993–1994), and judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy (2005–2014).
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Tomaso Montanari
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- art historianuniversity teacheropinion journalistbloggerjournalist
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Tomaso Montanari is an Italian art historian, academic and essayist.
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Alessio Figalli
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Alessio Figalli is an Italian mathematician working primarily on calculus of variations and partial differential equations.
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Michela Marzano
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- university teachersociologistwriterpoliticianphilosopher
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Maria Michela Marzano is an Italian researcher, philosopher and writer. Politically connected to the Italian left, she was elected a Member of the Italian Parliament for the Democratic Party in February 2013.
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Vito Volterra
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- physicistmathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Vito Volterra was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
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Franca Pilla
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- teacher
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Franca Pilla was the first lady of Italy, when Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was president of Italy from 1999 to 2006.
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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro
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- mathematician
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Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
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Alessandro Natta
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- politicianjournalist
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Alessandro Natta was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history. After joining the PCI in 1945, he was deputy from 1948 to 1992, a member of the PCI's central committee starting in 1956, was part of the direction from 1963 and of the secretariat, first from 1962 to 1970 and then from 1979 to 1983, and leader of the PCI parliamentary group from 1972 to 1979; he was also the director of Rinascita from 1970 to 1972. After 1991, he did not join the PCI's successor parties.
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Luciano Bianciardi
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- film actorlinguistteacherwritertranslator
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Luciano Bianciardi was an Italian journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels.
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Salvatore Settis
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- 1963-1965 studied classical archaeology
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- art historianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Salvatore Settis is an Italian archaeologist and art historian. From 1994 to 1999 he was director of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and from 1999 to 2010 of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
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Paolo Emilio Taviani
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1936
- Occupations
- economistpartisanhistorianpolitician
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Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist, and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria, a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement, then a member of the Consulta (National Assembly gathered to direct the transformation of the monarchy into a Republic) and the Constituent Council, later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death. Several times minister in the Republic’s governments. He was author of studies on economics and important works on Christopher Columbus, University professor and journalist.
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Franco Rasetti
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- physicistuniversity teacherbotanistnuclear physicistpaleontologist
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Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist and botanist. Together with Enrico Fermi, he discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral grounds.
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Fabio Mussi
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- politician
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Fabio Mussi is an Italian politician, formerly Minister of University and Research in the Prodi II Cabinet. A former member of the Italian Communist Party and then Democrats of the Left, he became a lead founding member of the Democratic Left. Mussi was then a member of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), which the Democratic Left merged into in 2010, before becoming a member of the Italian Left (SI) after SEL was dissolved in 2017.
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Roberto Battiston
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- university teacherphysicistexperimental physicist
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Roberto Battiston is an Italian physicist, specialized in the field of fundamental physics and elementary particles, and leading experts in the physics of cosmic rays. He was the president of the Italian Space Agency from 2014 to 2018 and president of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) Committee on Astroparticle Physics from 2009 to 2014.
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Adrien Goetz
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- art historianwriter
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Adrien Goetz is a French Art History Professor, art critic and novelist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His work appeared in Zurban, and Beaux-Arts Magazine. He is Lecturer in Art History at the Sorbonne., and the Editor of Grande Galerie, the magazine published by the Louvre Museum. Adrien Goetz was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France in December 2018.
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Luigi Ambrosio
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Luigi Ambrosio is a professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His main fields of research are the calculus of variations and geometric measure theory.
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Camillo De Lellis
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- university teachermathematician
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Camillo De Lellis is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of calculus of variations, hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics. He is a permanent faculty member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is also one of the two managing editors of Inventiones Mathematicae.
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Gioacchino Volpe
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- politicianhistorian
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Gioacchino Volpe was an Italian historian and, during the years between the two world wars, a politician.
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Furio Honsell
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- politicianmathematician
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Furio Honsell is an Italian professor and mathematician, former Mayor of Udine.
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Wilhelm Blaschke
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1908-1909
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Wilhelm Johann Eugen Blaschke was an Austrian mathematician working in the fields of differential and integral geometry.
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Mauro Picone
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1904-1907
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Mauro Picone was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem and being the founder of the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, presently named after him, the first applied mathematics institute ever founded. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils.
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Paolo Marcellini
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Paolo Marcellini is an Italian mathematician who deals with mathematical analysis. He was a full professor at the University of Florence, actually Professor Emeritus, who works on partial differential equations, calculus of variations and related mathematics. He was the Director of the Italian National Group GNAMPA of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INdAM) and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Florence.
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Guido Stampacchia
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1940-1943
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Guido Stampacchia was an Italian mathematician, known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations.
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Bruno Pinchard
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- Freemasonrywriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Bruno Pinchard is a French writer and scholar, PhD, and professor of philosophy.
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Giulio Ascoli
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Giulio Ascoli was a Jewish-Italian mathematician. He was a student of the Scuola Normale di Pisa, where he graduated in 1868.
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Guido De Philippis
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Guido De Philippis is an Italian mathematician. He works on the calculus of variations, partial differential equations and geometric measure theory.
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Luciano Modica
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- university teacherpoliticianmathematician
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Luciano Modica was an Italian politician. He was a senator from 2002 to 2006.
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Giovanni Alberti
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Giovanni Alberti is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of calculus of variations, real analysis and geometric measure theory.
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Pier Luigi Luisi
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- 1938-.. (age 86)
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- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pier Luigi Luisi is an Italian chemist and academic. He received the "professor emeritus" title from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). He worked there as a scientist from 1970 until 2003, and as a Professor of Chemistry from 1980 until he departed. Luisi then moved to the Roma Tre University as a Professor of Biochemistry, where he worked until 2015.
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Corinna Ulcigrai
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Corinna Ulcigrai is an Italian mathematician working on dynamical systems. With Krzysztof Frączek in 2013, Ulcigrai is known for proving that in the Ehrenfest model (a mathematical abstraction of billiards with an infinite array of rectangular obstacles, used to model gas diffusion) most trajectories are not ergodic.
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Aldo Andreotti
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1942-1943
- 1945-1947 graduated with diploma di licenza della Scuola Normale Superiore
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- university teachermathematician
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Aldo Andreotti was an Italian mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry, on the theory of functions of several complex variables and on partial differential operators. Notably he proved the Andreotti–Frankel theorem, the Andreotti–Grauert theorem, the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem and introduced, jointly with François Norguet, the Andreotti–Norguet integral representation for functions of several complex variables.
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Maria Colombo
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 2007-2015
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Maria Colombo is an Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She is a professor at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, where she holds the chair for mathematical analysis, calculus of variations and partial differential equations.
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Mario Pieri
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1881-1884
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosophermathematician
- Biography
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Mario Pieri was an Italian mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry.
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Eugenio Elia Levi
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1900-1904
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Eugenio Elia Levi was an Italian mathematician, known for his fundamental contributions in group theory, in the theory of partial differential operators and in the theory of functions of several complex variables. He was a younger brother of Beppo Levi and was killed in action during First World War.
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Giovanni Sansone
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1906-1910
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Giovanni Sansone was an Italian mathematician, known for his works on mathematical analysis, on the theory of orthogonal functions and on the theory of ordinary differential equations.
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Riccardo Rattazzi
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1983-1990
- Occupations
- theoretical physicist
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Riccardo Rattazzi is an Italian theoretical physicist and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His main research interests are in physics beyond the Standard Model and in cosmology.
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Umberto Zannier
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Umberto Zannier is an Italian mathematician, specializing in number theory and Diophantine geometry.
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Guido Zappa
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- mathematicianhistorian
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Guido Zappa was an Italian mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics. Zappa was particularly known for some examples of algebraic curves that strongly influenced the ideas of Francesco Severi.
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Carlo Somigliana
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- university teacherphysicistmathematician
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Carlo Somigliana was an Italian mathematician and a classical mathematical physicist, faithful member of the school of Enrico Betti and Eugenio Beltrami. He made important contributions to linear elasticity: the Somigliana integral equation, analogous to Green's formula in potential theory, and the Somigliana dislocations are named after him. Other fields he contribute to include seismic wave propagation, gravimetry and glaciology. One of his ancestors was Alessandro Volta: precisely, the great Como physicist was an ancestor of Carlo's mother, Teresa Volta.
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Giovanni Ricci
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1921-1925
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Giovanni Ricci was an Italian mathematician.
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Alessandro Lami
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- classical philologistuniversity teacherhellenist
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Alessandro Lami was an Italian classical philologist.
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Antonio Signorini
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- physicistuniversity teachercivil engineerengineermathematician
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Antonio Signorini was an influential Italian mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century. He is known for his work in finite elasticity, thermoelasticity and for formulating the Signorini problem.
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Pietro Corsi
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- historian of science
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Pietro Corsi is an Italian historian of science.
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Orazio Silvestri
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- geologistvolcanologist
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Orazio Silvestri was an Italian geologist and volcanologist. To him are entitled Monti Silvestri, two pyroclastic cones formed in 1892 north of Nicolosi, at an altitude of 1,900 m, on the slopes of Mount Etna. At a time, such as that of the mid-nineteenth century, when the Italian scientific production was slow due to lack of valid scholars, numerous works of Silvestri found prominence in the most prestigious national and international scientific publications. After his death, he bequeathed studies and works of great value for understanding the evolution of Etna whom had devoted much of his life.
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Onorato Nicoletti
- Enrolled in the Normal School of Pisa
- Studied in 1894
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Onorato Nicoletti was an Italian mathematician.
