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21 unusual facts about University of Milan


27855 Giorgilli

It is named after Antonio Giorgilli, a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Milan.

Abraham Seidenberg

At the time of his death, he was in the midst of series of lectures at the University of Milan.

The couple frequently visited Italy and Seidenberg held a visiting professorship at the University of Milan.

Bruno Coppi

In 1959 Coppi attained a PhD at the Milan Polytechnic Institute and was subsequently a docent and research scientist at the Polytechnic Institute and the University of Milan.

Carolina Tohá

Tohá has a law degree from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Milan.

Cinzia Sasso

Sasso is part of the steering committee of the "School of Journalism Walter Tobagi" of the University of Milan.

Daniel Atzori

He holds a Bachelor’s degree cum laude in History and a Master’s degree cum laude in Economic History from the Università degli Studi of Milan.

Franco Fabbri

--‘economia dei beni musicali’--> as part of the Scienze e Tecnologie della Comunicazione Musicale (STCM) degree at the University of Milan.

Giulio Giorello

Giorello graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1968 and in mathematics in 1971 at the University of Milan.

Ice skate

According to a study done by Federico Formenti, University of Oxford, and Alberto Minetti, University of Milan, Finns were the first to develop ice skates some 5,000 years ago from animal bones.

Inoslav Bešker

He obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Slavistics from the University of Milan in 2001 and currently teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Bologna.

Juergen Toft

Dr. Juergen Toft is a world-renowned knee specialist surgeon practising in Munich, Germany and a Professor at the University of Milan in Milan, Italy.

Matilde Marcolli

Marcolli obtained her Laurea in Physics in 1993 summa cum laude from the University of Milan under the supervision of Renzo Piccinini, with a thesis on Classes of self equivalences of fibre bundles.

Medinet Maadi

It has been suggested that the unusually good preservation of this temple complex, excavated by a team of archaeologists from the University of Milan in the 1930s, may have been due simply to its relative seclusion.

Midichloria

The genome of Midichloria mitochondrii was recently sequenced by an international scientific consortium formed by researchers belonging to the University of Milan, the University of Sydney, the University of Valencia, the University of Pavia, and the University of Milan Bicocca.

Orbiting Frog Otolith

The Frog Otolith Experiment (FOE) was developed by Dr. Torquato Gualtierotti of the University of Milan, Italy, when he was assigned to the Ames Research Center as a resident Research Associate sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences.

Pierluigi Roi

He studied Political Science at the University of Milan and Languages and International Commerce at the Pietro Verdi Institute.

Randa Ghazy

Ghazy was born in Italy to Egyptian parents and studied International Relations at the University of Milan.

René Laurentin

Throughout Father Rene's life he has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities in both the United States and Europe including summer tenure at the University of Dayton in Ohio as a visiting lecturer for well over twenty years and Marymount University in Washington D.C. He is also a member of the Theology Faculty at the University of Florence and the University of Milan.

Roberto Car

He was in 1973/74 a postdoc at the University of Milan, from 1977 to 1981 an assistant at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, from 1981 to 1983 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, from 1984 to 1990 associate professor for physics at SISSA in Trieste (in 1990/91 as full professor) and from 1991 to 1999 professor for physics at the University of Geneva (and director of the IRRMA of the ETH Lausanne).

Sborgite

It was named for Umberto Sborgi, (1883 - 1955), Professor of Chemistry, University of Milan, Italy.


Alberto Carlos Taquini

He also sered as Visiting Professor in prestigious institutions around the world, including: the University of California, Stanford, Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Cornell, the University of Toronto, the University of Oxford, the University of Milan, the University of San Marcos in Peru, and the University of Chile.

Carlo Giannini

Carlo Giannini (10 July 1948, Brescia – 11 September 2004, Pavia) was an econometrician and mathematical economist who taught at the Universities of Ancona, Bergamo, Calabria, Milan and Pavia during the period 1976–2004.

FISEC

1990, May 5: As a result of that cooperation FISEC is founded at the ESB in Porto by the following six universities: University of Reading, UK; University of Milan, Italy; Wageningen University, Netherlands; ESB Porto, Portugal; ENSIA, Massy and ENSBANA, Dijon, France.

Gianfelice Rocca

Rocca holds a cum laude degree in Physics from the University of Milan, and is a PMD graduate at Harvard Business School in Boston.

Karolos Papoulias

He studied law at the University of Athens and the University of Milan, has a doctorate in private international law from the University of Cologne, and is an associate of the Munich Institute for Southeast Europe.

Nicoletta Vallorani

Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan.

Research Committee on Sociology of Law

Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) was established in 1962 by William M. Evan (University of Pennsylvania) and Adam Podgórecki (University of Warsaw), with the support of Renato Treves (University of Milan) during the Congress of the International Sociological Association (ISA), which was held in Weshington D. C. Treves was elected as the first president of the RCSL, Podgórecki as the vice-president and Evan as the Secretary.

Vittorio Zucconi

Born in Bastiglia, Province of Modena, Italy, Zucconi received a degree in literature and philosophy from the University of Milan.