List of Italian scientists
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A list of notable Italian scientists.
- Edoardo AmaldiEdoardo AmaldiEdoardo Amaldi was an Italian physicist.He was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, son of Ugo Amaldi, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, and Luisa Basini....
- Carlo AmorettiCarlo AmorettiCarlo Amoretti was an ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. He was born in Oneglia, now Imperia in the Liguria region, Italy.He entered the Augustinian order in 1757...
- Arnaldo Maria AngeliniArnaldo Maria AngeliniArnaldo Maria Angelini was an Italian scientist, known for contributions in the development of nuclear generating stations as well as hydro and pumped hydro stations, and the improvement of Italy's transmission and distribution systems...
- Vincenzo AntinoriVincenzo AntinoriVincenzo Antinori was a science administrator in Italy.From 1829 to 1859, Antinori was director of the Regal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence where he worked with Leopoldo Nobili on electromagnetic induction...
- Giovanni AntonelliGiovanni AntonelliGiovanni Antonelli was an Italian scientist, astronomer and engineer.Antonelli was born in Pistoia, Tuscany. A Catholic priest, he was director of the Ximenian Observatory of Florence from 1851 until his death....
- Nicolò ArrighettiNicolò ArrighettiNicolò Arrighetti was an Italian professor of natural philosophy. He was born in Florence, Italy in 1709. On October 21, 1724 he became a member of the Society of Jesus; he taught natural philosophy in Spoleto, Prato and Siena...
- Vincenzo BalzaniVincenzo BalzaniVincenzo Balzani is an Italian chemist, now emeritus professor at the University of Bologna.- Career :...
- Giacopo BelgradoGiacopo BelgradoGiacopo Belgrado, Italian Jesuit and natural philosopher.Giacopo belonged to a noble family and received his education at Padua...
- Gianni BellocchiGianni BellocchiGianni Bellocchi is a researcher in agricultural and related sciences. He is credited with the development of approaches and tools in validation of estimates and measurements...
- Vannoccio BiringuccioVannoccio Biringuccio- External links :*...
- Scipione BreislakScipione BreislakScipione Breislak , Italian geologist of German parentage, was born in Rome in 1748. He distinguished himself as professor of mathematical and mechanical philosophy in the college of Ragusa; but after residing there for several years he returned to his native city, where he became a professor in...
- Giovanni Battista BrocchiGiovanni Battista BrocchiGiovanni Battista Brocchi was an Italian naturalist, mineralogist and geologist.He was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, and studied jurisprudence at the University of Padova, but his attention was turned to mineralogy and botany...
- Marta BurgayMarta BurgayDr Marta Burgay is a radio astronomer whose initial claim to fame was being the discoverer of PSR J0737-3039, the first double pulsar , through using the 64-metre Parkes radio telescope in Australia.-J0737–3039:...
- Paolo CanettieriPaolo CanettieriPaolo Canettieri is a romance philologist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, working in Italy. He is a professor at the University of Rome and researcher in the Department of European and Intercultural Studies. He is one of the founders of Cognitive philology and Editor in chief of the...
- Antonio CariniAntonio CariniAntonio Carini was an Italian physician, bacteriologist and professor. He worked in the public health services of São Paulo, Brazil for over forty years....
- Carlo Petrini (scientist)Carlo Petrini (scientist)Carlo Petrini is an Italian scientist and senior researcher at the Italian National Institute of Health , where he is head of the Bioethics Unit.-Biography:...
- Aldo CastellaniAldo CastellaniSir Aldo Castellani was an Italian pathologist and bacteriologist.-Life and achievements:Castellani was born in Florence and educated there, qualifying in medicine in 1899. He worked for a time in Bonn and joined the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London in 1901...
- Federico CesiFederico CesiFederico Angelo Cesi was an Italian scientist, naturalist, and founder of the Accademia dei Lincei. On his father's death in 1630, he became briefly lord of Acquasparta.- Biography :...
- Giovanni Francesco CrivelliGiovanni Francesco CrivelliGiovanni Francesco Crivelli was a Venetian priest.Crivelli was a priest member of Somasco holy order in the Cloister of the Health, then was provincial Father of the order and rector of the Seminar of Murano...
- Gaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo CroccoGaetano Arturo Crocco was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples....
- Eugenio CurielEugenio CurielEugenio Curiel was an Italian physicist and a prominent figure of the Italian resistance movement. He was awarded a gold medal for military valour.- Life :...
- Vincenzo, Count DandoloVincenzo, Count DandoloVincenzo, Count Dandolo , Italian chemist and agriculturist, was born at Venice of good family, though not of the same house as the famous doges, and began his career as a physician....
- Federico DelpinoFederico DelpinoFrederico Delpino was an Italian botanist who made very important observations on the pollination of flowers by insects...
- Marco DorigoMarco DorigoMarco Dorigo is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research , a professor in the computer science department of the University of Paderborn and a co-director of , the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.He is the proponent of the "ant colony...
- Bartolomeo EustachiBartolomeo EustachiBartolomeo Eustachi , also known by his Latin name of Eustachius, was one of the founders of the science of human anatomy.-Life:...
- Eustachio DiviniEustachio DiviniEustachio Divini was an Italian manufacturer and experimenter of optical instruments for scientific use in Rome.-The origins:Eustachio was born on 4 October 1610 in San Severino Marche, from the illustrious Divini's family...
- Giovanni FabbroniGiovanni FabbroniGiovanni Valentino Mattia Fabbroni was an Italian naturalist, economist, agronomist and chemist....
- Michelangelo FardellaMichelangelo FardellaMichelangelo Fardella was an Italian scientist.Fardella was born at Trapani, Sicily, and died in Naples. He was a member of the Order of Saint-François, where he excelled in physics and mathematics, and was both the chair of philosophy in Modena and of astronomy and philosophy in Padoue...
- Enrico FermiEnrico FermiEnrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
- Napoleone FerraraNapoleone FerraraNapoleone Ferrara, M.D., Ph.D. is an Italian-American molecular biologist and is currently a Genentech Fellow in tumor biology and angiogenesis. He is credited with identifying the human VEGF gene and describing its proangiogenic properties, which formed the basis for the development of Genentech's...
- Bartholomew Ferrari
- Francesco NardelliFrancesco NardelliFrancesco Romano Nardelli was born on 5 September 1953 in Rome, Italy, where he currently lives. He is an Italian naturalist who has dedicated his life to the protection and conservation of endangered species...
- Ferdinando GalianiFerdinando GalianiFerdinando Galiani was an Italian economist, a leading Italian figure of the Enlightenment. Friedrich Nietzsche called him the "most fastidious and refined intelligence" of the 18th century....
- Galileo GalileiGalileo GalileiGalileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...
- Vittorio GalleseVittorio GalleseVittorio Gallese is professor of human physiology at the University of Parma, Italy with appointments in the departments of neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology. He is an expert in neurophysiology, neuroscience, social neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. Gallese is one of the discoverers of...
- Carlo Gambacorti-PasseriniCarlo Gambacorti-PasseriniCarlo Gambacorti-Passerini is an Italian oncologist and hematologist known for his contributions to cancer research. He is presently Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Milan Bicocca in Italy and Director of the Clinical Research Unit at S. Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy...
- Agostino GemelliAgostino GemelliAgostino Gemelli was an Italian physician, Franciscan friar and psychologist who was also the founder and chancellor of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan in 1921....
- Paolo GoriniPaolo GoriniPaolo Gorini was an Italian scientist.-Biography:Born in Pavia, he moved to Lodi in 1834 as physics lecturer in the local Lyceum. Here he achieved noteworthy discoveries about organic substances....
- Guido of Pisa
- Antonio LanzavecchiaAntonio LanzavecchiaAntonio Lanzavecchia is an Italian immunologist. He was born in Varese, Italy. In 1976 he obtained his degree with honors in Medicine at the University of Pavia where he specialized in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases...
- Fortunio LicetiFortunio Licetithumb|Portrait of Fortunio LicetiFortunio Liceti , also known as Fortunius Licetus, was an Italian scientist.He was born in Rapallo, and studied at the University of Bologna, graduating with doctorates in philosophy and medicine. He then took a position of chair at the University of Pisa. He later...
- Ettore MajoranaEttore MajoranaEttore Majorana was an Italian theoretical physicist who began work on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly in mysterious circumstances. He is noted for the eponymous Majorana equation and for Majorana fermions.-Gifted in mathematics:Majorana was born in Catania, Sicily...
- Antonio MeucciAntonio MeucciAntonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was an Italian inventor, a compatriot of revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. He was best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone....
- Giovanni Battista MorgagniGiovanni Battista MorgagniGiovanni Battista Morgagni was an Italian anatomist, celebrated as the father of modern anatomical pathology.-Education:...
- Giuseppe MoscatiGiuseppe MoscatiSaint Giuseppe Moscati was an Italian doctor, scientific researcher, and university professor noted both for his pioneering work in biochemistry and for his piety...
- Chiara NappiChiara NappiChiara R. Nappi is an Italian physicist. Her research areas have included mathematical physics, particle physics, and string theory.-Academic career:...
- Stefano NolfiStefano NolfiStefano Nolfi is a director of research of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and head of the Laboratory of Autonomous Robots and Artificial Life. He is one of the founders of Evolutionary robotics...
- Giuseppe OliviGiuseppe OliviGiuseppe Olivi was an Italian naturalist.Olivi was born at Chioggia. He was the author of Zoologia Adriatica . He died in Padua.-References:...
- Luisa OttoliniLuisa OttoliniLuisa Ottolini is an Italian physicist.Her research activities are concerned mainly with the development, set up and optimisation of microanalytical procedures for the quantitative determination of elements present at low concentrations , light and volatile elements Luisa Ottolini (born July 10,...
- Gianpiero D. PalermoGianpiero D. PalermoGianpiero D. Palermo is the developer of the revolutionary procedure known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection , which is able to overcome male infertility in many cases. Since 1993, he has been the Director of Assisted Fertilization and Andrology at The Center for Reproductive Medicine and...
- Enzo PaolettiEnzo PaolettiEnzo Paoletti is an Italian scientist who devised a strategy to produce recombinant DNA vaccines. Working with his colleague Dennis Panicali at the New York State department of Health and using genetic engineering techniques, the researchers were able to transform ordinary smallpox vaccine into...
- Franciscus Patricius
- Giuseppe Saverio PoliGiuseppe Saverio PoliGiuseppe Saverio Poli was an Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian.His collections, with those of the Royal Bourbon Museum, were the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples...
- Francesco PonaFrancesco PonaFrancesco Pona was an Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays.-Works:...
- Giambattista della PortaGiambattista della PortaGiambattista della Porta , also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta and John Baptist Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation....
- Giorgio ProdiGiorgio ProdiGiorgio Prodi was an Italian medical scientist, oncologist and semiotician.He studied medicine and chemistry in the University of Bologna. From 1958, he taught general pathology and experimental oncology...
- Salvatore RamponeSalvatore RamponeSalvatore Rampone is an Italian scientist and bodybuilder. Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sannio - Italy, he possesses two Master of Arts degrees, in Computer Science and Informatics. Prior to becoming an academic, Rampone carried out research and teaching activity in several...
- Scipione Riva-RocciScipione Riva-RocciScipione Riva-Rocci was an Italian internist and pediatrician who was a native of Almese. He earned his medical degree in 1888 from the University of Turin, and from 1900 until 1928 was director of the hospital in Varese.He developed an easy to use version of the sphygmomanometer...
- Francesco RuggieroFrancesco RuggieroFrancesco Ruggiero b. August 1957 in Italy, d. January 2007 in Switzerland, in chronological order. participated in the comssionning of LEP, contributed the LHC design, became the leader of the accelerator group in CERN and finally coordinated the CARE-HHH framework devoted to the LHC upgrade studies...
- Filippo SalviatiFilippo SalviatiFilippo Salviati was an Italian scientist and astronomer from a noble Florentine family.In his friend Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, he appears as the character Salviati, the spokesperson for the author's own Copernican ideas, and is there described by the author as a...
- Raimondo di SangroRaimondo di SangroRaimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero was an Italian nobleman, inventor, soldier, writer and scientist, best remembered for his reconstruction of the Chapel of Sansevero in Naples.-Early life:...
- Emilio Segrè
- Lazzaro SpallanzaniLazzaro SpallanzaniLazzaro Spallanzani was an Italian Catholic priest, biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and essentially discovered echolocation...
- Luko Stulić
- Giulio Superti-FurgaGiulio Superti-FurgaGiulio Superti-Furga, PhD is an Italian molecular and systems biologist based in Vienna, Austria.Giulio Superti-Furga is the Scientific Director of CeMM; the of the Austrian Academy of Sciences....
- Lorenzo TenchiniLorenzo TenchiniLorenzo Tenchini was born in Brescia and studied Medicine in Pavia where he became lecturer of Anatomy in 1880. In 1881, at the age of 29 years, he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the University of Parma. In this city Tenchini began to study the morphology of the brains of criminals, later...
- Evangelista TorricelliEvangelista TorricelliEvangelista Torricelli was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer.-Biography:Evangelista Torricelli was born in Faenza, part of the Papal States...
- Tommaso Lo MonacoTommaso Lo MonacoDoctor of Medicine, Tommaso Lo Monaco, one of the so-called guidonians, in the 40's was strongly in favour of a multi-disciplinary approach to space sciences. He believed that aeronautical engineering and medicine were closely related and even more in the case of astronautics. He illustrated his...
- Antonella TostiAntonella TostiAntonella Tosti is an Italian physician and scientist with major contributions in the field of dermatology.She is the author of Dermoscopy of Hair and Scalp Disorders, the first hair and scalp dermoscopy atlas ever published....
- Antonio VallisneriAntonio VallisneriAntonio Vallisneri was an Italian medical scientist, physician and naturalist.-Life:Vallisneri was born in Trassilico, a small village in Garfagnana, and graduated in medicine in 1684, in Reggio Emilia, under the guidance of Marcello Malpighi.He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held...
- Fausto Veranzio
- Vidus VidiusVidus VidiusVidus Vidius , born Guido Guidi, was an Italian surgeon and anatomist. His father was a physician and his mother was the daughter of the painter Domenico Ghirlandajo....
- Alessandro VoltaAlessandro VoltaCount Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in 1800.-Early life and works:...