Notable Alumni
| Picture | Alumni | Born | Died | Academic degree | Note | Awards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emilio Gino Segrè | 1905 | 1989 | Physics | Physicist,colleague and close friend of Ettore Majorana. He's Doctoral advisor was Enrico Fermi. He helped discover Antiproton,Astatine,sub-atomic antiparticle. He discovered Technetium. | Nobel Prize in Physics (1959) | ||
| Enrico Fermi | 1901 | 1954 | Physics Professor | Physicist,colleague and close friend of Ettore Majorana. He was Doctoral advisor of Emilio Gino Segrè. He descovered: new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation,Controlled nuclear chain reaction. He's also known for the Fermi–Dirac statistics and TheTheory of beta decay | Nobel Prize in Physics (1938) | ||
| Daniel Bovet | 1907 | 1992 | Psychobiology Professor | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1957)for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1957) | ||
| Pietro Belluschi | 1899 | 1994 | Civil Engineering | Leader of the Modern Movement in architecture. Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning(1951-1965). Collaborator and Design Consultant for Pan Am Building. | AIA Gold Medal (1972) | ||
| Ennio de Giorgi | 1922 | 1996 | Maths | He was an Italian mathematician,who worked on partial differential equations. He solved Bernstein's problem about minimal surfaces. He solved 19th Hilbert problem on the regularity of solutions of elliptic partial differential equations. | Caccioppoli Prize (1960), Wolf Prize(1990) | ||
| Romaldo Giurgola | 1920 | Literature and Arts | ex Professor at Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia, before becoming chair of the Columbia architectural department in 1966. He is presently Ware Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Columbia. | AIA Gold Medal(1982) | |||
| Bernardo Bertolucci | 1940 | Modern Literature | Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The Dreamers | 2 Nastro d'Argento Best Director,Academy Award for Best Director,Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Globe Award for Best Director,Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay,David di Donatello for Best Director,David di Donatello for Best Script,Golden Lion for his career at the Venice Film Festival,Honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Scott O'Dell | 1898 | 1989 | American children's author who wrote Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), which won the 1961 Newbery Medal and the 1963 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis as well as the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, of The King's Fifth (1966), Black Star, Bright Dawn (1988), The Black Pearl (1967), and Sing Down the Moon (1970); which were all also Newbery Honor | Newbery Medal (1961),Lewis Carroll Shelf Award,Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis,several Newbery Honor awards | |||
| Gabriele D'Anunnzio | 1863 | 1938 | poet, journalist, playwright, soldier, politician. He's literary movement was Decadent movement | ||||
| Vito Volterra | 1860 | 1940 | Mathematical Physics Professor | Italian mathematician and physicist, known for Theory of integral equations and the Lotka–Volterra equations | |||
| Maria Montessori | 1870 | 1952 | Natural sciences | Founder of the Montessori method of education | |||
| Charles Ponzi | 1882 | 1949 | Known for the fraudulent business scheme named after him,the Ponzi scheme | ||||
| Nicola Cabibbo | 1935 | 2010 | Physics | Ex President of Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics and of Pontifical Academy of Sciences | |||
| Mario Draghi | 1947 | Economics | President of the European Central Bank. Governor for Italy on the Boards of Governors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank. Ex governor of the Bank of Italy. Ex Italian Executive Director at the World Bank. Ex director general of the Italian Treasury. Ex vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs International | ||||
| Umberto Guidoni | 1954 | Astrophysics | European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency astronaut(ESA/ASI) and a veteran of two NASA space shuttle mission | ||||
| Maurizio Cheli | 1959 | Geophysics | European Space Agency and Italian Space Agency astronaut(ESA/ASI) and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission | ||||
| Abdirashid Ali Shermarke | 1919 | 1969 | Political Science | 2nd President of Somalia | |||
| Luca Cordero di Montezemolo | 1947 | Italian businessman and Chairman of Ferrari, president of Confindustria,president of Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori(NTV). He was also Chairman of Fiat S.p.A from 2004 to 2010. | |||||
| Gaetano Fichera | 1951 | Literature and Arts | He was an Italian mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and [[several complex variables. Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL and of the Russian Academy of Science. | ||||
| Ignazio Visco | 1949 | Economics | Governor of the Banca d'Italia(Bank of Italy) | ||||
| Carlo Fea | 1753 | 1836 | Law | Italian archaeologist | |||
| Massimiliano Fuksas | 1944 | Architecture | Italian architect | ||||
| Mario Catania | 1952 | Literature and Arts | Ex Head of Department of European and International Policies at the Agriculture Ministry. Italian Minister of Agriculture | ||||
| Paolo Leon | 1935 | Economics | prominent Italian Post Keynesian economist | ||||
| Sergio Balanzino | 1934 | Law | Deputy Secretary General of NATO. Two times NATO General Secretary | ||||
| Franco Frattini | 1957 | Law | Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||||
| Antonio Tajani | 1953 | Law | European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship | ||||
| Leopoldo Elia | 1925 | 2008 | Law | Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs | |||
| Crescenzio Sepe | 1943 | Philosophy | Cardinal-Archbishop of Naples | ||||
| Christian De Sica | 1951 | Literature and Arts | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | ||||
| Carlo Verdone | 1950 | Modern Literature | Actor, Director, Scriptwriter | ||||
| Andrea Stramaccioni | 1976 | Law | ex footballer who is the current head coach of Internazionale Milano. |
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