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7 unusual facts about University of Pavia


Alexander Sauli

After some years of study under capable masters, he entered the Congregation of the Barnabites at an early age, and became teacher of philosophy and theology at the University of Pavia.

Cesare Zerba

Cesare Zerba was born in Castelnuovo Scrivia, and studied at the seminaries in Stazzano and Tortona, the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare in Rome, and the University of Pavia.

Giovanni Cantoni

He taught at the University of Pavia, where Carlo Marangoni was among his students, and headed the Italian metrological service from 1865–1878.

Giuseppe Gibelli

He originally studied medicine, earning his medical doctorate at the University of Pavia.

H. Eugene Stanley

Honorary Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia (Pavia, Italy), and at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary).

Rodolfo Benini

at the University of Pavia (1897–1907) and at the Bocconi University of Milan (1905–1909).

Soft Hard Real-Time Kernel

It has been developed at RETIS Lab, a research facility of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, and at the University of Pavia as a tool for teaching, testing, and developing real-time software solutions.


Antonio Maria Bordoni

In 1854, as the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Pavia (it previously belonged to the one of the Philosophy) was established, he was elected Director of Mathematical Studies and held such office until his death, which occurred 26 March 1860, after just a month from being appointed senator.

Joining the faculty of the University of Pavia in 1817, Bordoni is generally considered to be the founder of the mathematical school of Pavia.

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.

Chalkokondyles

He taught Greek Literature at the University of Pavia (see Pavia) when he was very young and he translated some works of Cicero.

Michael Baxandall

He spent a year at Pavia University (1955–56), then taught at an international school in St. Gallen in Switzerland (1956–57), and finally went to Munich to hear the art historian Hans Sedlmayr and where he worked with Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich on the court of Urbino at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.

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.

P. M. Forni

Forni received his undergraduate degree in Letters and Philosophy from the University of Pavia and his Ph.D. in Italian literature from UCLA.

Sorin Stati

He held for a number of years the chair of linguistics at the University of Bucharest; then, due to a conflict with the official regime, which imposed a brutal control over academics, he moved to Italy where he obtained temporary lectureships at the University of Pavia and University of Venice.

Walter Noll

Noll has served as a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Karlsruhe, the Israel Institute of Technology, the École Polytechnique in Nancy, the University of Pisa, the University of Pavia, and the University of Oxford.


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Arturo Falaschi

He was Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Pavia (1966 to 1979); Director of the Instituto di Genetica Biochimica ed Evoluzionistica, CNR, Pavia (1970 to 1987); and Director of the Progetto Finalizzato “Ingegneria Genetica” of the Italian National Research Council (1982 to 1989).

Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio

In 1371 he served as ambassador to Venice, but after the conflict between Padua and Venice in 1372, joined the University of Pavia, and served as diplomat and scholar until his death in Abbiategrasso on 19 October 1388.

Sertoli cell

Sertoli cells are called so because of their eponym Enrico Sertoli, an Italian physiologist who discovered them while studying medicine in the University of Pavia, Italy.