The University of Padua (, UNIPD) is an Italian

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Padua Padua ( ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua. The city lies on the banks of the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice and southeast of Vicenza, and has a population of 20 ...

, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the

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, who previously settled in

Vicenza Vicenza ( , ; or , archaically ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione, River Bacchiglione. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and e ...

; thus, it is the second-oldest university in Italy, as well as the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. The University of Padua was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe, known particularly for the rigor of its

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and science. Together with the

, Padua had a central role in the

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, housing and educating a number of Italian Renaissance mathematicians, amongst them

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. , it is made up of 32 departments and eight schools. Padua is part a network of historical research universities known as the

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. In 2021, the university had approximately 72,000 students including undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral students.

History

The university is conventionally said to have been founded in 1222 when a large group of students and professors left the

in search of more

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('Libertas scholastica'), although it is certain that schools of law and medicine with students from various nations existed near Padua for a few years before 1222, more precisely in

. In reality, the first place where this group of students and professors from Bologna settled was at the University of Vicenza, where they were welcomed. Due to various vicissitudes, the headquarters was permanently moved to Padua. The first subjects to be taught were

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and

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. The curriculum expanded rapidly, and by 1399 the institution had divided in two: a ''Universitas Iuristarum'' for civil law and

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, and a ''Universitas Artistarum'' which taught

astronomy Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...

dialectic Dialectic (; ), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argument. Dialectic resembles debate, but the ...

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

, and

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. There was also a Universitas Theologorum, established in 1373 by Urban V. The student body was divided into groups known as "

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" which reflected their places of origin. The nations themselves fell into two groups: # the ''cismontanes'' for the Italian students # the ''ultramontanes'' for those who came from beyond the

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From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, the university was renowned for its research, particularly in the areas of medicine, astronomy, philosophy and law. At the time it was the most renowned school of medicine internationally. During this time, the university adopted the

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: ''Universa universis patavina libertas'' (Paduan Freedom is Universal for Everyone). Nevertheless, the university had a turbulent history, and there was no teaching in 1237–1261, 1509–1517, 1848–1850. The

Botanical Garden of Padova The Orto Botanico di Padova is a botanical garden in Padua, in the northeastern part of Italy. Founded in June 1545 by the Venetian Republic, it is the world's oldest academic botanical garden that is still in its original location. The garden � ...

, established by the university in 1545, is one of the oldest gardens of its kind in the world. Its alleged title of oldest academic garden is in controversy because the Medici created one in

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in 1544. In addition to the garden, best visited in the spring and summer, the university also manages nine museums, including a

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museum. The university began teaching medicine around 1250. It played a leading role in the identification and treatment of diseases and ailments, specializing in

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and the inner workings of the body. Since 1595, Padua's famous

anatomical theatre An anatomical theatre (Latin: ) was a specialised building or room, resembling a theatre, used in teaching anatomy at early modern universities. They were typically constructed with a tiered structure surrounding a central table, allowing a larg ...

drew artists and scientists studying the human body during public dissections. It is the oldest surviving permanent anatomical theatre in Europe. Anatomist

Andreas Vesalius Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote '' De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'' (''On the fabric of the human body'' ''in seven books''), which is ...

held the chair of Surgery and Anatomy (''explicator chirurgiae'') and in 1543 published his anatomical discoveries in

De Humani Corporis Fabrica ''De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'' (Latin, "On the Fabric of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543. It was a major advance in the history of a ...

. The book triggered great public interest in dissections and caused many other European cities to establish anatomical theatres. On 25 June 1678, Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, a Venetian noblewoman and mathematician, became the first woman to be awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree. The university became one of the universities of the

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in 1873, and ever since has been one of the most prestigious in the country for its contributions to scientific and scholarly research: in the field of mathematics alone, its professors have included such figures as Gregorio Ricci Curbastro,

Giuseppe Veronese Giuseppe Veronese (7 May 1854 – 17 July 1917) was an Italian mathematician. He was born in Chioggia, near Venice. Education Veronese earned his laurea in mathematics from the Istituto Tecnico di Venezia in 1872. Work Although Veronese's work w ...

Francesco Severi Francesco Severi (13 April 1879 – 8 December 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He was the chair of the committee on Fields Medal in 1936, at the first delivery. Severi was born in Arezzo, Italy. He is famous for his contributions to algebra ...

and Tullio Levi Civita. The last years of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century saw a reversal of the centralisation process that had taken place in the sixteenth: scientific institutes were set up in what became veritable campuses; a new building to house the Arts and Philosophy faculty was built in another part of the city centre (''Palazzo del Liviano'', designed by

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); the Astro-Physics Observatory was built on the

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uplands; and the old ''Palazzo del Bo'' was fully restored (1938–1945). The vicissitudes of the Fascist period—political interference, the Race Laws, etc.—had a detrimental effect upon the development of the university, as did the devastation caused by the

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and—just a few decades later—the effect of the student protests of 1968–1969 (which the university was left to face without adequate help and support from central government). However, the Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum continued its work uninterrupted, and overall the second half of the twentieth century saw a sharp upturn in development—primarily due an interchange of ideas with international institutions of the highest standing (particularly in the fields of science and technology). In recent years, the university has been able to meet the problems posed by overcrowded facilities by re-deploying over the Veneto as a whole. In 1990, the Institute of

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was set up in

, after which the summer courses at

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(Bressanone) began once more, and in 1995 the Agripolis centre at Legnaro (for Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine) opened. Other sites of re-deployment are at

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, Feltre,

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and Asiago. Recent changes in state legislation have also opened the way to greater autonomy for Italian universities, and in 1995 Padua adopted a new Statute that gave it greater independence. As the publications of innumerable conferences and congresses show, the modern-day University of Padua plays an important role in scholarly and scientific research at both a European and world level. True to its origins, this is the direction in which the university intends to move in the future, establishing closer links of cooperation and exchange with all the world's major research universities. Since 2022, the University of Padua has been experiencing difficulties with the payments of scholarships for the "right to study", thus leaving 1955 students (207 of that international students) without any kind of accommodation and receiving stipends.

Organization and administration

Finances

The university foresaw a budget of €831 million for the 2023 fiscal year. Of this, €545 million were contributions paid by the Ministry of Education, University and Research of

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, the

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, local administrations like

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and

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, and other entities. The remaining €232 million were classified as own revenues, of which €106 million came from tuition fees and €125 million from research-related income. The amount of tuition students pay depends on their major, the financial situation of their household and if they take more time to graduate compared to the established length of their program. Tuition is also significantly lowered for non-EU citizens of certain developing countries. There are also scholarships and fee-waivers based on merit on other factors. Generally, most students who are graduating in time and are not from low income households will pay around €2,700/year for the 2023/24 academic year.

Rankings

The university is constantly ranked among the best Italian universities. For 2023, in '' U.S. News & World Report''s ''World Best Global Universities Rankings'', the University of Padua is ranked as the 1st place institution in Italy, taking 43rd place in Europe and the world's 115th.

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ranks the university in the Italian top 4, tied for 2nd place with the

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and the

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under the

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ranks the university in the 151st – 200th range globally for 2023. The 2024 ''

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'' lists the university at 4th place in Italy and in the 201st – 250th range worldwide.

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ranks the university 4th in Italy in 2024 and the best in Italy to study

geology Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

and

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, earth and sea sciences,

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

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and

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. It also places the University of Padua at 219th in the world for 2024. Also, according to

, the University of Padua is ranked 125th in the field of

Medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

. The

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, which focuses on productivity and quality of scientific production, places the University of Padua as 82nd worldwide for 2022. The

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, based exclusively on bibliometric indicators, places the University of Padua as 2nd place in Italy and 104th worldwide.

Notable people

Alumni

Notable people who have attended the University of Padua include: ;In natural sciences * Angelo Azzi biochemist, author and academic *

(1473–1543) Polish mathematician and astronomer, placed Sun at center of Solar System *

John Caius John Caius (born John Kays ; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I ...

(1510–1573) English physician *

Vesalius Andries van Wezel (31 December 1514 – 15 October 1564), Latinization of names, latinized as Andreas Vesalius (), was an anatomist and physician who wrote ''De humani corporis fabrica, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem'' (''On the fabric ...

(1514–1564) known as founder of modern human anatomy; offered professorship at Padua, but died *

Gabriele Falloppio Gabriele Falloppio (1522/23 – 9 October 1562) was an Italian priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius. He was one of the most important human anatomy, anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century, giving his name to t ...

(1523–1562) anatomist; anatomy of head and internal ear; reproductive organs *

William Harvey William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, pulmonary and systemic circulation ...

(1578–1657) anatomist; described function of heart and circulatory system * George Ent (1604–1689) English anatomist, supporter of Harvey *

Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne ( "brown"; 19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a d ...

(1605–1682) English writer and physician * Sir Edward Greaves (1608–1680) English physician. *

Nathaniel Eaton Nathaniel Eaton (before 17 September 1609 − before 11 May 1674) was an Anglican clergyman who was the first President of Harvard University#Presidents of Harvard, Headmaster of Harvard, Chairperson, President designate, and builder of Harvard ...

(1610–1674), Ph.D. and M.D., first Head Master of

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* Tommaso Perelli (1704–1783), Italian astronomer *

Federico Faggin Federico Faggin (, ; born 1 December 1941) is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the desig ...

(1941–) designer of the first commercial microprocessor * Mario Rizzetto (1945–) Italian virologist; worked with Hepatitis D virus * Petros Kestoras (1957–) Cipriot diplomat ;In politics and government * Ludovico Trevisan (1401–1465), Cardinal, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Archbishop of Florence, Patriarch of Aquileia, Captain General of the Church, and physician. * Sir Francis Walsingham (ca 1532–1590) spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I *

Jan Zamoyski Jan Sariusz Zamoyski (; 19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st '' ordynat'' of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown f ...

(1542–1605), Polish nobleman, magnate, diplomat and statesman * Seneschal Constantine Cantacuzino Stolnic (–1716), Romanian nobleman and humanist scholar who held high offices in the Principality of Wallachia. Author of a ''History of Wallachia'' (unfinished), he was the first Romanian to ever graduate from this prestigious university. *

Ioannis Kapodistrias Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (; February 1776 –27 September 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe. Kapodistrias's ...

(1776–1831), 1st Governor of Greece, Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire *

Alexandros Mavrokordatos Alexandros Mavrokordatos (; 11 February 179118 August 1865) was a Greek statesman, diplomat, politician and member of the Mavrocordatos family of Phanariotes. Biography In 1812, Mavrokordatos went to the court of his uncle John George Caradja ...

(1791–1865), Prime Minister of Greece *

Luigi Luzzatti Luigi Luzzatti (; 11 March 1841 – 29 March 1927) was an Italian financier, political economist, social philosopher, and jurist. He served as the 20th prime minister of Italy between 1910 and 1911. Luzzatti came from a wealthy and cultured Jew ...

(1841–1927), financier, political economist, social philosopher and jurist, 20th Prime Minister of Italy * Abdirahman Jama Barre (1937–2017), Foreign Minister of Somalia *

Daniele Franco Daniele Franco (born 7 June 1953) is an Italian economist, central banker and civil servant who served as Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Minister of Economy and Finance in the Draghi Cabinet, cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2 ...

(1953–), Italian economist, Draghi Cabinet Finance Minister. ;In arts, theology and literature * Saint

Albertus Magnus Albertus Magnus ( 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia, Albert von Bollstadt, or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the great ...

(d.1280) * Mikołaj Kiczka (around 1382–1429), nobleman, diplomat and priest * Francesco Barbaro (1390–1454), humanist * Nicolas of Cusa (1401–1464), in canon law. German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer. * Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493) Italian renaissance scholar * Sir John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester (1458–1464) *

Pietro Pomponazzi Pietro Pomponazzi (16 September 1462 – 18 May 1525) was an Italian philosopher. He is sometimes known by his Latin name, ''Petrus Pomponatius''. Biography Pietro Pomponazzi was born in Mantua and began his education there. He completed h ...

(1462–1525), natural philosopher * Giovanni Pico (1463–1494), humanist *

Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, (; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theory, literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Re ...

(1470–1547), poet and cardinal * Francysk Skaryna (1470–1551/1552), printer of the first book in an Eastern Slavic language *

Reginald Pole Reginald Pole (12 March 1500 – 17 November 1558) was an English cardinal and the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, holding the office from 1556 to 1558 during the Marian Restoration of Catholicism. Early life Pole was born at Stourt ...

(1500–1558), cardinal * Cardinal Stanislaus Hosius (1504–1579) * Daniele Barbaro (1514–1570), translator of

Vitruvius Vitruvius ( ; ; –70 BC – after ) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled . As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissan ...

* Pomponio Algerio (1531–1556), student of civil law (1550s) executed under the Roman Catholic Inquisition * Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589) physics, metaphysics, and mathematics. * George Acworth (1534–1578?), Anglican priest and civil lawyer *

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

(1544–1595), poet * Theophilos Corydalleus (1563–1546) Greek Neo-Aristotelian philosopher, started Korydalism. *

István Szamosközy István Szamosközy, Latinisation of names, latinised as Stephanus Zamosius (1565–1612) was a Hungary, Hungarian Renaissance Humanism, humanist and historian. Life Zamosius was probably born in 1565 in Kolozsvár, Principality of Transylvania ...

(1565–1612), humanist and historian from Transylvania, the leading figure of Hungarian historiography at the beginning of the 17th century *Saint

Francis de Sales Francis de Sales, Congregation of the Oratory, C.O., Order of Minims, O.M. (; ; 21 August 156728 December 1622) was a Savoyard state, Savoyard Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Geneva and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He became n ...

(1567–1622), double doctorate "in utroque jure", that is, in canon and civil law (1591) * Roger Manners (1576–1612), 5th Earl of Rutland and poet and abettor of Essex's Rebellion *

Angelus Silesius Angelus Silesius, Order of Friars Minor, OFM (9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler, was a German Roman Catholicism, Catholic priest, physician, Mysticism, mystic and Christian poetry, religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheranism, Lutheran, he be ...

(1624–1677), German priest, physician and poet * Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), first woman to receive a

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degree *

Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in Pirano in the Republic of Venice (now Piran, Slovenia). Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred pieces for the ...

(1692–1770), musician and composer * Moses Hayyim Luzzatto (1707–1746), kabbalist and playwright, founder of Hebrew literature *

Giacomo Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (; ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer who was born in the Republic of Venice and travelled extensively throughout Europe. He is chiefly remembered for his autobiography, written in French and pu ...

(1725–1798), traveller, author and seducer *

Ugo Foscolo Ugo Foscolo (; 6 February 177810 September 1827), born Niccolò Foscolo, was an Italian writer, revolutionary and poet. He is especially remembered for his 1807 long poem ''Dei Sepolcri''. Early life Foscolo was born in Zakynthos in the Ionia ...

(1778–1827), Italian writer, revolutionary, and poet * Edgar Manas (1875–1964), composer * Carlo Crespi Croci (1891–1982), Italian priest, anthropologist, and filmmaker * Boris Pahor (1913–2022), writer

Notable faculty

* Ermolao Barbaro (1454–1493), appointed professor of philosophy in 1477 * Leonik Tomeu (1456–1531) first to teach Aristotle in original Greek * Jacopo Zabarella (1533–1589) held chairs of logic, and philosophy, from 1564 to 1589 *

Galileo Galilei Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( , , ) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a poly ...

(1564–1642) held chair of

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

between 1592 and 1610 * Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684), mathematics lecturer, and the first woman to receive a PhD degree * Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730) held chairs of practical medicine, and theoretical medicine, between 1700 and 1730 *

Giovanni Battista Morgagni Giovanni Battista Morgagni (25 February 1682 – 6 December 1771) was an Italian anatomy, anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 year ...

(1681–1771) held chairs of theoretical medicine, and anatomy, between 1711 and 1771 *

Tullio Levi-Civita Tullio Levi-Civita, (; ; 29 March 1873 – 29 December 1941) was an Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus ( tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, but who also made signifi ...

(1873–1941) held the chair of Rational Mechanics, famous for his work on the absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and many other important contributions in the area of Pure and Applied Mathematics * Concetto Marchesi (1878–1957) rector from 1943 to 1953 * Sergio Bettini (1905–1986) professor of History of Medieval Art and History of Art Criticism * Gianfranco Folena (1920–1992) Professor of the History of the Italian Language * Gian Piero Brunetta (1942–) Professor of cinema history and criticism * Patrizia Pontisso (1955–) Professor of internal medicine *

Massimo Marchiori Massimo Marchiori (Padua, 1970) is an Italian people, Italian mathematician and computer scientist. Biography In July, 2004, he was awarded the TR35 prize by Technology Review (the best 35 researchers in the world under the age of 35). He is P ...

(1970–) Assoc. Prof. (2006–); Italian computer scientist and inventor of Hypersearch *Emilio Quaia Professor of radiology * Ines Testoni Professor of Social Psychology

Departments

The University of Padua offers a wide range of degrees, organized by Departments: * Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment * Department of Biology * Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health * Department of Biomedical Sciences * Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences * Department of Chemical Sciences * Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering * Department of Communication Sciences * Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science * Department of Cultural Heritage: Archaeology and History of Art, Cinema and Music
Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation

Department of Economics and Management

Department of General Psychology
* Department of Geosciences
Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World

Department of Industrial Engineering

Department of Information Engineering
* Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry * Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies * Department of Management and Engineering * Department of Mathematics * Department of Medicine * Department of Molecular Medicine * Department of Neurosciences * Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences * Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Department of Political and Juridical Sciences and International Studies
* Department of Private Law and Critique of Law * Department of Public, International and Community Law
Department of Statistical Sciences
* Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology * Department of Women's and Children's Health

Schools

Departments have been united in a limited number of Schools: *

Agricultural science Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Professio ...

and

Veterinary medicine Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, medical diagnosis, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals. The scope of veterinary medicine is wide, covering all a ...

Economics Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...

and

Political sciences Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

Engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

Human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus ''Homo''. They are Hominidae, great apes characterized by their Prehistory of nakedness and clothing ...

and

social sciences Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among members within those societies. The term was former ...

and

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by socie ...

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

and

surgery Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery s ...

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

Sciences Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

References

External links

Scholars and Literati at the University of Padua (1222–1800)Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae – RETEUniversity of Padua Website

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