EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Padua, Italy

Founding Date:
1222 AD

Enrollment:
65,000

Official Website:
http://www.unipd.it/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Prospero Alpini	Botanist	23-Nov-1553	23-Nov-1616	De Plantis Aegypti liber
Cesare Beccaria	Philosopher	15-Mar-1738	28-Nov-1794	On Crimes and Punishments
John Caius	Doctor	6-Oct-1510	29-Jul-1573	Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
Girolamo Cardano	Doctor	24-Sep-1501	21-Sep-1576	De Subtilitate
Giacomo Casanova	Author	2-Apr-1725	4-Jun-1798	World-renowned paramour
Francesco Colonna	Author	1433	2-Oct-1527	Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Nicolaus Copernicus	Astronomer	19-Feb-1473	24-May-1543	Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Engelbert of Admont	Religion	c. 1250	12-May-1331	Abbot of Admont
Girolamo Fabrici	Doctor	20-May-1537	21-May-1619	De Venarum Ostiolis
Gabriele Falloppio	Doctor	1523	9-Oct-1562	Observationes anatomicae
Ugo Foscolo	Playwright	6-Feb-1778	10-Sep-1827	The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis
William Harvey	Doctor	1-Apr-1578	3-Jun-1657	Discovered circulation of blood
Luigi Nono	Composer	29-Jan-1924	8-May-1990	Il Canto Sospeso
Bruno Rossi	Astronomer	13-Apr-1905	21-Nov-1993	Rossi curve and magnetopause
Paolo Sarpi	Activist	14-Aug-1552	14-Jan-1623	Venetian patriot, church reformer
Giuseppe Sinopoli	Conductor	2-Nov-1946	20-Apr-2001	Principal Conductor, Philharmonia, 1984-94
Pope Sixtus IV	Religion	21-Jul-1414	12-Aug-1484	Roman Catholic Pope, 1471-84
Giuseppe Tartini	Violinist	8-Apr-1692	26-Feb-1770	Trillo del Diavolo
Fausto Veranzio	Engineer	1551	27-Jan-1617	Tested Da Vinci's parachute

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Prospero Alpini	Botanist	23-Nov-1553	23-Nov-1616	De Plantis Aegypti liber
Norberto Bobbio	Philosopher	18-Oct-1909	9-Jan-2004	Philosopher of politics and the law
Giordano Bruno	Scientist	1548	17-Feb-1600	Heretic cosmologist
Girolamo Fabrici	Doctor	20-May-1537	21-May-1619	De Venarum Ostiolis
Bruno de Finetti	Mathematician	13-Jun-1906	20-Jul-1985	Subjective probability
Galileo Galilei	Astronomer	15-Feb-1564	8-Jan-1642	Copernican observational astronomer
Augusto Righi	Physicist	27-Aug-1850	8-Jun-1920	Electromagnetic waves
Bruno Rossi	Astronomer	13-Apr-1905	21-Nov-1993	Rossi curve and magnetopause
Nicolaus Steno	Geologist	10-Jan-1631	25-Nov-1686	De solido intra solidum
Alessandro Volta	Physicist	18-Feb-1745	5-Mar-1827	Invented electric battery

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