44 Notable alumni of
Polytechnic University of Turin
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The Polytechnic University of Turin is 997th in the world, 352nd in Europe, and 20th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 44 notable alumni from the Polytechnic University of Turin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Elkann
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- entrepreneurbusinessperson
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John Philip Jacob Elkann is an American-born Italian industrialist. In 1997, he became the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, and since 2004 has been leading the Agnelli family, an Italian multi-industry business dynasty. The Agnelli family has been described in media as comparable to the Kennedy family in terms of prominence in national affairs.
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Vilfredo Pareto
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- economistsociologistuniversity teachermathematicianphilosopher
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Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices, and was one of the minds behind the Lausanne School of economics. He was also responsible for popularising the use of the term elite in social analysis and contributed to elite theory. He has been described as "one of the last Renaissance scholars. Trained in physics and mathematics, he became a polymath whose genius radiated into nearly all other major fields of knowledge."
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Pier Giorgio Frassati
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- publisher
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Pier Giorgio Frassati TOP was an Italian Catholic activist and a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. He was dedicated to social justice issues and joined several charitable organizations, including Catholic Action and the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, to better aid the poor and less fortunate living in his hometown of Turin.
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Carlo De Benedetti
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- financierbusinesspersonentrepreneur
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Carlo De Benedetti is an Italian industrialist, engineer, and publisher. He is both an Italian and naturalized Swiss citizen. He was awarded the Order of Merit for Labour by the Italian state in 1983, the Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte (gold medal of culture and art) and the Legion d'Honneur in 1987.
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Adriano Olivetti
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- politicianentrepreneurarchitectengineerbusinessperson
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Adriano Olivetti was an Italian engineer, entrepreneur, politician, and industrialist. He was known worldwide during his lifetime as the Italian manufacturer of Olivetti brand typewriters, calculators, and computers. He was son of the founder of Olivetti, Camillo Olivetti, and Luisa Revel, the daughter of a prominent Waldensian pastor and scholar. The Olivetti empire had been begun by his father.
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Ettore Sottsass
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- photographerdesignerjewelry designerindustrial designerpainter
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Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and product designer. He was known for his designs of furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, homeware and office supplies. He also worked on numerous buildings and interiors, often defined by bold colours.
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Silvio Scaglia
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- entrepreneur
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Silvio Scaglia is a Swiss-born media and technological entrepreneur. Scaglia is the founder of Fastweb, an Italian telecommunications company. Scaglia is the co-owner of Freedom Holding (formerly Pacific Global Management Group), a holding company that controls the Elite World Group. In 2020, he founded SHS management, an AI-powered asset management company.
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Giulio Douhet
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- aircraft pilotmilitary officer
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Giulio Douhet was an Italian general and air power theorist. He was a key proponent of strategic bombing in aerial warfare. He was a contemporary of the air warfare advocates Walther Wever, Billy Mitchell, and Hugh Trenchard.
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Sergio Pininfarina
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Turin
- In 1950 studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- politicianentrepreneurcoachbuilderprofessordesigner
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Sergio Pininfarina was an Italian automobile designer and Senator for life.
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Paolo Soleri
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- university teacherwritersculptorarchitecturban planner
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Paolo Soleri was an American architect and urban planner. He established the educational Cosanti Foundation and Arcosanti. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He coined the concept of 'arcology' – a synthesis of architecture and ecology as the philosophy of democratic society. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93.
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Corradino D'Ascanio
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- military flight engineerinventordesigneruniversity teacher
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General Corradino D'Ascanio was an Italian aeronautical engineer. D'Ascanio designed the first production helicopter, for Agusta, and designed the first motor scooter for Ferdinando Innocenti. After the two fell out, D'Ascanio helped Enrico Piaggio produce the original Vespa.
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Dante Giacosa
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- engineerdesigner
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Dante Giacosa was an Italian automobile designer and engineer responsible for a range of Italian automobile designs — and for refining the front-wheel drive layout to an industry-standard configuration. He has been called the deus ex machina of Fiat.
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Camillo Olivetti
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- engineerentrepreneurpolitician
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Samuel David Camillo Olivetti was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines. The company was later run by his son Adriano.
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Francesco Profumo
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- university teacherengineerpolitician
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Francesco Profumo is an Italian engineer and academic who was Italy's Minister of Education from 16 November 2011 to 28 April 2013. He has been president of the National Research Council (CNR) since August 2011 and had previously served as Chancellor of the Polytechnic University of Turin from 2005 to 2011.
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Carlo Ratti
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- architectengineerinventor
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Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor and author. He is a professor of the practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. Ratti is also a founding partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, an international design and innovation firm with locations in Turin, New York and London.
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Alessandro Antonelli
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- architectpolitician
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Alessandro Antonelli was an Italian architect of the 19th century. He was the most prominent Neoclassical 19th-century architect in Piedmont, with a long and prolific career that included designs for houses, churches and major urban planning schemes. His most famous works are the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, one of the tallest masonry structures ever erected, and both the Novara Cathedral and the Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara.
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Carlo Mollino
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- designerracing automobile driverphotographerarchitect
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Carlo Mollino was an Italian architect, designer, photographer and educator.
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Edgardo Sogno
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- partisanpoliticianwriterdiplomatjournalist
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Count Edgardo Pietro Andrea Sogno Rata del Vallino di Ponzone OMRI was an Italian diplomat, partisan and political figure. He was born in an aristocratic family from Piedmont. Sogno was a monarchist, antifascist and anticommunist.
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Pier Giorgio Perotto
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- computer scientistengineerinventor
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Pier Giorgio Perotto was an Italian electrical engineer and inventor. Working for the manufacturer Olivetti, he led a design team that built the Programma 101, one of the world's first programmable calculators.
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Giuseppe Romita
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- politician
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Giuseppe Romita was an Italian socialist politician. He served several times as a cabinet minister and member of the Italian Parliament.
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Giuseppe Gabrielli
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- engineermilitary flight engineer
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Giuseppe Gabrielli was an Italian aeronautics engineer. He is famous as the designer of numerous Italian military aircraft, including the Fiat G.50 Freccia and Fiat G.55 Centauro World War II fighters.
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Gino Levi-Montalcini
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Turin
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- university teacherdesignerarchitect
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Luigi "Gino" Levi-Montalcini was an Italian architect and designer.
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Anna Cataldi
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- humanitarianfilm producerjournalist
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Anna Margherita Cataldi was an Italian humanitarian, journalist, film producer, and author of several books.
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Giuseppe Pagano
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- partisandesignerphotographerarchitect
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Giuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War. He designed exhibitions, furniture and interiors and was an amateur photographer. He was also a long-time editor of the magazine Casabella.
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Leonardo Chiariglione
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- computer scientistengineerinventor
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Leonardo Chiariglione is an Italian engineer who has led the development of international technical standards for digital media. In particular, he was the chairman of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) from 1988 to 2020, which he co-founded together with Hiroshi Yasuda of NTT.
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Enrico Fumia
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- designercar designer
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Enrico Fumia is an Italian automobile and product designer. He is widely known for his work with the car design firm Pininfarina, helping to design and package a new sports car version of the Alfa Romeo, which included front-wheel drive and traversely-mounted engines. Today he runs Fumia Design Studio.
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Carlo Alberto Castigliano
- Enrolled in the Polytechnic University of Turin
- Studied in 1870-1873
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- inventorphysicistcivil engineerexecutivearchitect
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Carlo Alberto Castigliano was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.
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Pietro Fenoglio
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- engineerarchitect
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Pietro Fenoglio was an Italian architect and engineer, considered one of the most important pioneers of Art Nouveau in Italy.
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Orazio Satta Puliga
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- engineer
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Orazio Satta Puliga was an Italian automobile designer of Sardinian ancestry known for several Alfa Romeo designs.
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Gianni Vernetti
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- journalistpolitician
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Gianni Vernetti is a writer and Italian politician.
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Andrea Morello
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- quantum physicistresearcherelectrical engineeruniversity teacher
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Andrea Morello is the Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales, and a Program Manager at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T). Morello is the head of the Fundamental Quantum Technologies Laboratory at UNSW.
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Juan Carlos De Martin
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherjournalist
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Juan Carlos De Martin is an Italian academic.
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Yvan Sagnet
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- writer
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Yvan Sagnet is a Cameroonian activist and non-fiction writer, known for founding the charity No Cap and his work against the exploitation of workers in the Italian agricultural industry.
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Gustavo Colonnetti
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- university teacherpoliticianmathematicianengineercivil engineer
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Gustavo Colonnetti was an Italian mathematician and engineer who made important contributions to continuum mechanics and strength of materials. He was a Rector of the Polytechnic University of Turin and President of CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche). His theories found important applications in modern techniques of construction, such as pre-stressed concrete.
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Arsène Tema Biwolé
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- physicistengineer
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Arsene Tema Biwole is a Cameroonian nuclear engineer and plasma physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Giovanni Savonuzzi
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- car designer
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Giovanni Savonuzzi was an Italian automobile designer who was born and died in Ferrara.
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Nani Beccalli
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- business executive
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Ferdinando "Nani" Falco Beccalli is CEO of Falco Enterprises, based in Zürich, Switzerland. He is also Senior Operating Executive of Rhône Capital, Chairman of ASK Chemicals and Zodiac.
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Guido Chiarelli
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- engineer
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Guido Chiarelli, was an Italian electrical engineer. He is known for his pioneering work in public lighting.
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Giacomo Ferrari
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- politicianpartisan
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Giacomo Ferrari was an Italian industrial engineer and communist politician. He served as a minister of transport between 1946 and 1947. He was a member of the Italian Senate and was the mayor of Parma from 1951 to 1953.
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Eugenio Rignano
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- philosopherpsychologistsociologist
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Eugenio Vittorio Rignano was a Jewish Italian philosopher.
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Giorgio Ceragioli
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- civil engineer
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Giorgio Ceragioli was an Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement in Italy.
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Giuseppe Albenga
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- engineercivil engineer
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Giuseppe Albenga was an Italian civil engineer, professor of bridge construction, and historian of civil engineering.
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Daniele Trinchero
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- scientist
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Daniele Trinchero is an Italian engineer and inventor. In late 2004, together with Riccardo Stefanelli, he founded the iXem Labs to develop new wireless technologies for applications in Environmental Monitoring and Social Development at the Polytechnic University of Turin.
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Francisco Diego
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- paintersculptor
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Francisco Diego is a Mexican plastic artist.
