Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

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The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - short SNS - (literally: " Higher Normal School" ) is an Italian elite high school in Pisa.

History

It was founded at the behest of Napoleon I in 1810 on the model of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. Admission, employment, penalties and clothing for the student and to awards were regulated strictly according to the French model. After the fall of Napoleon and the restoration of the Grand Ducal violence, the school was closed and only reopened in 1846 as a " seedbed for teachers and professors of higher schools." 1862, the institution was the newly formed State of Italy assumed. She developed more and more into a research center and a training center for future scientists and lecturers.

Today it includes a wide range of subjects in all areas. In teaching field, the emphasis is on the training of graduate students, but there are also students, usually in cooperation with the University of Pisa. The main building of the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Palazzo della Carovana, served before the foundation of the school, first as the administrative headquarters of the Pisan government and after the conquest of Pisa by Florence in 1409 as the seat of a Medici loyal order of knights, of which the name of the square in front of the building (Piazza dei Cavalieri ) still shows. To institution include several laboratories and research institutions.

Study conditions

The male and female students are accommodated in homes in the city. Candidates for admission have a probability of 10 % to be included among the approximately 30 people of the scientific branch or under the 24 people in the humanities. Admission criteria are not so much conceptual knowledge and good memory performance, but originality and intuition. Prerequisite for inclusion in the higher level is an annual colloquium suitability. In addition to a rating of 27 out of 30 points and a minimum of 24 points in each test must have for the displacement on average. In addition to the standard laid down for university courses must annually two more in the curriculum to be. The students of the " Normal " get food and accommodation, reimbursement of tuition and a small monthly contribution to the acquisition of educational documents. You have at discounted prices or free Internet access, photocopying, library use. The library, which has a population of about 800 000 units ( in 2005) is split over several buildings.

Famous graduates

Some famous alumni of the Scuola Normale Superiore:

  • Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Nobel Prize for Physics (1938 )
  • Carlo Rubbia ( born 1934 ), Nobel Prize for Physics (1984 )
  • Giosuè Carducci (1835-1907), Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1906)
  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ( * 1920 ), former Governor of the Banca d' Italia, former President of the Italian Republic
  • Giovanni Gronchi (1887-1978), politician, former President of the Italian Republic
  • Giovanni Gentile (1875-1944), philosopher and politician
  • Giuseppe Vitali (1875-1932), mathematician
  • Saverio Cannistrà OCD (* 1958), Superior General of the Teresian Carmel
  • Salvatore Settis (* 1941), archaeologist and historian
  • Carlo Ginzburg ( b. 1939 ), historian
  • Adriano Prosperi ( b. 1939 ), historian
Doctorate Knights' Square (Pisa) Technische Hochschule Polytechnic University of Turin Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo Accademia di belle arti di Venezia
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