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{{Short description|Public university in Pavia, Italy}}
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| latin_name = Alma Ticinensis Universitas
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| rector = [[Francesco Svelto]]
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The '''University of Pavia''' ({{langx|it|Università degli Studi di Pavia}}, '''UNIPV''' or ''Università di Pavia''; {{langx|la|Alma [[Ticinus|Ticinensis]] Universitas}}) is a university located in [[Pavia]], [[Lombardy]], Italy. There was evidence of teaching as early as 1361, making it one of the [[List of oldest universities in continuous operation|oldest universities]] in the world. It was the sole university in [[Milan]] and the greater Lombardy region until the end of the 19th century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-pavia|title=University of Pavia|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|access-date=10 October 2017}}</ref> Currently, it has 18 departments and 9 faculties. It does not have a main campus; its buildings and facilities are scattered around the city, which is in turn called "a city campus". The university caters to more than 20,000 students who come from Italy and all over the world.

The university offers more than 80 undergraduate programs; over 40 master programs, and roughly 20 doctoral programs (including 8 in English).<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.universitaly.it/|title=Universitaly – Scheda Ateneo – Università degli Studi di PAVIA|website=Universitaly|access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref> About 1,500 students who enter the university every year are international students.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ustat.miur.it/dati/|title=Esplora i dati|last=USTAT|website=USTAT|access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref>

The university operates multiple cultural and scientific museums, including the [[University History Museum, University of Pavia|University History Museum]], a botanical garden, research centers, university libraries and a university press. The university is also affiliated with [[Policlinico San Matteo]], at which hundreds of medical students from the university perform [[Clinical clerkship|clinical rotations]] during their clinical years.

The University of Pavia is a member of the [[Coimbra Group|COIMBRA Group]] and [[European University Association]]. It also participates in the [[Erasmus Programme]], which allows student exchanges between the University of Pavia and various universities in Europe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/international-relations/erasmus/incoming-students/articolo502.html|title=International Students Welcome Week 2018|website=unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420222946/http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/international-relations/erasmus/incoming-students/articolo502.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==History==

=== Foundation and the Middle Ages ===
An edict issued by the [[Franks|Frankish]] [[king of Italy]], [[Lothar I]] (ruled 818–55) mentions the existence of a higher education institution at [[Pavia]] as early as AD 825.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www-4.unipv.it/webcesup/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=26|title=Storia dell'Ateneo – Cenni storici|website=www-4.unipv.it|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-date=9 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190309081752/http://www-4.unipv.it/webcesup/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=26|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mantovani|first=Dario|title=Il lungo cammino dei mercanti di sapienza. Le origini dell'Università di Pavia nella storiografia dal XIV al XX secolo|journal=Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere • Rendiconti di Lettere|date=January 2012|url=https://www.academia.edu/5156487}}</ref> This institution, mainly devoted to ecclesiastical and civil law as well as to divinity studies, was then selected as the prime educational centre for [[northern Italy]].

In 1361, the institution was officially established as a ''[[studium generale]]'' by the [[Holy Roman emperor]] [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV]], who granted the same teaching privileges enjoyed by the [[University of Paris]] and [[University of Bologna|Bologna]], allowing the institution to teach canon and civil law, philosophy, medicine and liberal arts. It was then expanded and renovated by the duke of [[Milan]], [[Gian Galeazzo Visconti]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/about-us/history.html|title=History|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=10 October 2017|archive-date=15 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221758/http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/about-us/history.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://economics.illinois.edu/academics/undergraduate-program/study-abroad/econ-italy-pavia|title=Econ in Italy: Pavia {{!}} Economics at Illinois|website=economics.illinois.edu|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref> becoming the sole university in the [[Duchy of Milan]] until the end of the 19th century.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Ottocento|date=19 August 2014|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/35627279045/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> Gian Galeazzo worked tirelessly to consolidate the institution and in 1389, he obtained a permission from [[Pope Boniface IX]] to teach advanced theology courses.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://ppp.unipv.it/PagesIT/1Gis/1GisMon/1GisMo1.htm|title=Biblioteche|website=ppp.unipv.it|access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Baldo degli ubaldi11.jpg|thumb|Funerary slab of [[Baldus de Ubaldis]] (first half of the 15th century), [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia]].]]
It was divided into two distinct universities — of jurisprudence (teaching civil and canon law courses) and of arts (teaching medicine, philosophy and liberal arts courses). A rector was elected every year, normally a student who was over twenty years old.<ref name=":4" /> The institution offered bachelor, licentiate and doctoral degrees. Despite the politics and hardships due to wars and pestilence, it experienced great growth and the institution was considered to be prestigious as evidenced by the influx of foreign students at the time.<ref name=":3" /> In 1412, [[Filippo Maria Visconti]] further consolidated the universities, invited prominent scholars to teach there and declared an edict giving serious penalties aimed at preventing students from going elsewhere to study.

=== Renaissance and Modern Period ===
Towards the 15th century, prominent teachers such as [[Baldus de Ubaldis|Baldo degli Ubaldi]], [[Lorenzo Valla]], [[Giasone del Maino]] taught students in the fields of law, philosophy and literary studies. In the same years, Elia di Sabato da Fermo, personal doctor of [[Filippo Maria Visconti]], was the first professor of medicine of the Jewish religion at a European university, while from 1490 a teaching of Hebrew was established at the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pavia |url=https://www7.tau.ac.il/omeka/italjuda/items/show/882 |website=www7.tau.ac.il |publisher=Italia Judaica |access-date=12 October 2022 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Not many years later, probably in 1511, [[Leonardo da Vinci]] studied anatomy together with [[Marcantonio della Torre]], professor of anatomy at the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=DALLA TORRE, Marco Antonio |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/dalla-torre-marco-antonio_(Dizionario-Biografico) |website=www.treccani.it |publisher=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani |access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref>
During the ongoing [[Italian War of 1521–26|Italian War of 1521–6]], the authorities in Pavia were forced to close the university in 1524.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Pavia 1525 : the climax of the Italian wars|last=Angus.|first=Konstam|date=1996|publisher=Osprey Military|isbn=978-1855325043|location=London|oclc=36143257}}</ref> However, during the 16th century, after the university was re-opened, scholars and scientists such as [[Andrea Alciato]] and [[Gerolamo Cardano]] taught here. During the period in which the [[duchy of Milan]] was governed by the kings of Spain, the research and educational activities of the university stagnated, but there were still prominent scholars such as [[Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri|Gerolamo Saccheri]] who was still involved with the university.<ref name=":3" />

The rebirth of the university was, in part, due to the initiatives led by [[Maria Theresa]] and [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II]] of the [[House of Habsburg|House of Austria]], in the second half of the 18th century. The initiatives included massive renovations to the teaching programs, research and structure rehabilitations, which were still retained by the university until now.<ref name=":3" />
[[File:Università pavia8.jpg|left|thumb|[[Old Campus of the University of Pavia]]]]
Throughout its history, the university had benefited from the presence of many distinguished teachers and scientists who wrote celebrated works and made important discoveries — chemist [[Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli]], mathematician [[Girolamo Cardano]] (born in Pavia, 1501–76), physicist [[Alessandro Volta]] (chair of natural philosophy 1769–1804), poet [[Ugo Foscolo]] (chair of eloquence 1809–10), playwright [[Vincenzo Monti]], jurist [[Gian Domenico Romagnosi]], naturalist [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]], mathematician [[Lorenzo Mascheroni]] and anatomist [[Antonio Scarpa]].<ref name=":3" />

In 1858, the university was the scene of intense student protests against [[Austria]]n rule in northern Italy (through the [[kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia]]). The authorities responded by ordering the university's temporary closure. The incidents at Pavia were typical of the wave of nationalist demonstrations all over Italy that immediately preceded the [[Unification of Italy|Unification]] (1859–66).<ref name=":3" />

During the 19th century, the medical, natural science and mathematics schools were graced by prominent scientists who propelled the status of the university to new heights. Three [[Nobel Prize]] winners taught in Pavia — physician [[Camillo Golgi]] (at Pavia from 1861), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1906 for his studies on the structure of the nervous system, chemist [[Giulio Natta]] (at Pavia between 1933 and 1935) and physicist [[Carlo Rubbia]]. In addition, distinguished mathematicians [[Eugenio Beltrami]], [[Felice Casorati (mathematician)|Felice Casorati]] and [[Luigi Berzolari]] were regular teachers in Pavia. It was also in the University of Pavia, in 1912, [[Carlo Forlanini]] discovered the first successful cure for [[tuberculosis]] — [[Pneumothorax|artificial pneumothorax]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mazzarello|first1=Paolo|last2=Cani|first2=Valentina|last3=Garbarino|first3=Maria Carla|date=11 August 2018|title=A century ago: Carlo Forlanini and the first successful treatment of tuberculosis|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=392|issue=10146|pages=475|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31497-1|issn=0140-6736|pmid=30129458|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sakula|first=A|date=May 1983|title=Carlo Forlanini, inventor of artificial pneumothorax for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.|journal=Thorax|volume=38|issue=5|pages=326–332|issn=0040-6376|pmid=6348993|pmc=459551|doi=10.1136/thx.38.5.326}}</ref> In the 1960s, the Faculty of Economics and Commerce as well as Engineering were added to the current lineup of faculties.
[[File:Biblioteca universitaria (1).jpg|thumb|[[Giuseppe Piermarini]], the library, 1772.]]
During the 20th century, teaching and research activities were carried out by additional prominent scholars such as [[Pasquale Del Giudice]] and [[Arrigo Solmi]] for law history; [[Contardo Ferrini]] and [[Pietro Bonfante]] for Roman law; [[Luigi Cossa]] and [[Benvenuto Griziotti]] for economy, [[Giacinto Romano]] for medieval and modern history and [[Plinio Fraccaro]] for ancient history.<ref name=":3" />

Also critical to the university's reputation was its distinguished record of public education, epitomized by the establishment of private and public colleges. The oldest colleges, the [[Collegio Borromeo]] and [[Collegio Ghislieri]], were built in the 16th century, and in more recent times others were founded through both public and private initiatives — the [[Collegio Nuovo]], the [[Collegio Santa Caterina]] and the other eleven colleges managed by [[EDiSU]]. In 1997 the [[IUSS Pavia|IUSS]], was established, a Higher Learning Institution ({{langx|it|Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori}}) similar to the Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa. The IUSS is the federal body that links the colleges of Pavia which constitute the [[Pavia University System]].

In 1989, Luca Bardi ([[violin]]ist) and Franco Gerevini ([[pianist]], [[oboe|oboist]], and [[conducting|conductor]]) established the Camerata de' Bardi, the academic [[orchestra]] of the University of Pavia in Italy. As of 2016, Nicola Bisson served as the orchestra's conductor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baroque.it/arte-barocca/musica-barocca/la-camerata-de-bardi-dalla-monodia-all-opera-lirica.html|title=La Camerata de' Bardi: Dalla monodia all'opera lirica|access-date=26 August 2016|archive-date=21 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821044728/http://www.baroque.it/arte-barocca/musica-barocca/la-camerata-de-bardi-dalla-monodia-all-opera-lirica.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>La música barroca By John Walter Hill</ref>

Today, the university continues to offer a wide variety of disciplinary and inter-disciplinary teaching. Research is carried out in departments, institutes, clinics, centres and laboratories, in close association with public and private institutions, enterprises, and factories.

==Organization==

The university has eighteen departments and nine faculties.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/didattica/dipartimenti/articolo7996.html|title=Dipartimenti|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-date=19 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190419032605/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/didattica/dipartimenti/articolo7996.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/naviga-per/studenti/segreteria-studenti-e-ufficio-tasse/segreteria-studenti-di-facolta/articolo292.html|title=Studenti|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-date=25 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425075446/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/naviga-per/studenti/segreteria-studenti-e-ufficio-tasse/segreteria-studenti-di-facolta/articolo292.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Departments ===
* Department of Clinical Surgery, Diagnostics and Pediatrics
* Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy
* Department of Molecular Medicine
* Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine
* Department of Neuroscience
* Department of [[Pharmacy]]
* Department of Biology and Biotechnology "Lazzaro Spallanzani"
* Department of Chemistry
* Department of Mathematics
* Department of Physics
* Department of Earth and [[environmental science|Environmental Sciences]]
* Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture
* Department of Industrial and Information Engineering
* Department of [[Economics]] and Management
* Department of [[Law]]
* Department of Political and Social Sciences
* Department of [[Humanities]]
* Department of [[Musicology]]

=== Faculties ===
* Faculty of Engineering
* Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

== Campus ==
The city of Pavia is essentially a city campus, so the campus buildings are located all around the city. The campuses for Faculty of Political Science and Law are located at [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia|Old Campus]] at Via Strada Nuova, near [[Pavia Cathedral]]. The campuses for Faculty of Engineering, Pharmacy, Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences are located at Via Ferrata, about 3&nbsp;km away from the city center, in a building complex called Polo Cravino.<ref name=":9">{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Polo Didattico Cravino|date=13 November 2014|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/19072596149/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The campuses for Faculty of Economics, Department of Psychology and Department of Philosophy are located at the [[Monastery of San Felice]]. The campus for Department of Musicology is located at [[Palazzo Raimondi]], Cremona. The campuses for Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine and Surgery are located at Via Forlanini and Via Taramelli, near [[Policlinico San Matteo]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/international-students/study-at-the-university-of-pavia/enroll-at-the-university-of-pavia/articolo13626.html|title=STUDENTS SERVICES|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=23 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424010159/http://www.unipv.eu/site/en/home/international-students/study-at-the-university-of-pavia/enroll-at-the-university-of-pavia/articolo13626.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Università pavia7.jpg|thumb|[[Giuseppe Piermarini]], facade of the university, 1771–1773.|alt=]]
[[File:Aula Scarpa Università di Pavia.jpg|thumb|[[Leopoldo Pollack]], Aula Scarpa, 1785–1786.|alt=]]
[[File:Aula volta pavia.jpg|thumb|[[Leopoldo Pollack]], Aula Volta, 1787.|alt=]]

=== Palazzo Centrale ===
{{Main|Old Campus of the University of Pavia}}
The entrance to the [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia|Old Campus]], which hosts the Faculty of Political Science and Law, is located at Via Strada Nuova. The palace has 9 courtyards — Cortile dei Caduti, Cortile di Volta, Cortile delle Statue, Cortile di Atilia Secundina, Cortile del Miliario, Cortile delle Magnolie, Cortile dei Tassi, Cortile Sforzesco, Cortile Teresiano. The palace also hosts more than 40 lecture theatres,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/naviga-per/documento18590.html|title=Mappa del Palazzo Centrale|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-date=21 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121140533/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/naviga-per/documento18590.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> including 8 lecture theatres for Faculty of Law and 10 lecture theatres for the Faculty of Political Science. The largest lecture theatre in the university is called Aula Magna, where inauguration ceremonies for graduations, white coat ceremonies and conferment of Medaglio Teresiana are held.

The palace dates back all the way to the 15th century. Originally, lessons by the university were held in private houses, in convents which provide suitable premises or in the same place as the municipal building. At the end of the 15th century, [[Ludovico Sforza|Ludovico il Moro]] assigned a building in Strada Nuova that belonged to [[Azzone Visconti]] to the university. Between 1661 and 1671, a major renovation was carried out under the guidance of the architect [[Ambrogio Pessina]]. During the 18th century, [[Maria Theresa]] of [[House of Habsburg|Austria]] wanted to make some improvements both to the education system and the building, thus she assigned the architect [[Giuseppe Piermarini]] and [[Leopoldo Pollack]] to oversee the renovations. Giuseppe Piermarini was in charge of the building facade and the courtyards, while Leopoldo Pollack was in charge of the lecture halls.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/sets/72157650647377089/with/16661444885/|title=Aule storiche del Palazzo Centrale|date=27 February 2015}}</ref>

During the 19th century, the university also incorporated the former monastery of Leano, which was donated by [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Joseph II of Lorena Habsburg]] and expanded to Via Mentana, these works were entrusted to the architect Giuseppe Marchesi, who also constructed the Aula Magna.

In 1932, the university acquired a vast 15th century complex which belonged to [[Policlinico San Matteo|San Matteo Hospital]], thus completing its expansion. This complex now houses the Department of Molecular Medicine, which is in charge of the health courses.
[[File:Sede di Ingegneria Università di Pavia 2.jpg|thumb|Polo Nave, Faculty of Engineering in Polo Cravino Complex|alt=]]

=== Polo Cravino ===
The land where Polo Cravino was built was purchased by the university at end of 1960. The complex was designed by an architect [[Giancarlo De Carlo]].<ref name=":9" /> In 1980, the buildings for Faculty of Engineering, Department of Genetics, lecture halls, laboratories as well as a complex for Institute of Molecular Genetics, under the National Research Council<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.igm.cnr.it/|title=Home|website=www.igm.cnr.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> were completed. In 1990, buildings for Department of Mathematics, Department of Earth and Environmental Science and a Computer Center were added.

== Museums ==
The university also manages multiple points of interest:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/|title=Sistema Museale d'Ateneo|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-museums-of-the-university-of-pavia|title=The Museums of the University of Pavia|website=Atlas Obscura|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Pila di volta.jpg|thumb|[[Voltaic pile]], University History Museum of the University of Pavia.]]

=== University History Museum ===
{{Main|University History Museum, University of Pavia}}
The [[University History Museum, University of Pavia|University History Museum]] ({{langx|it|Museo per la Storia dell'Università}}) hosts a large number of scientific instruments, anatomical and pathological preparations and samples, historical documents and volumes which are part of the university's history. The museum collection includes [[Antonio Scarpa|Antonio Scarpa's]] preserved severed head.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Abbott|first=Alison|date=30 January 2008|title=Hidden treasures: The University History Museum in Pavia|journal=Nature|volume=451|issue=7178|pages=526|doi=10.1038/451526a|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=2008Natur.451..526A|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://himetop.wikidot.com/antonio-scarpa-s-head|title=Antonio Scarpa's head - Himetop|website=himetop.wikidot.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

In addition to Scarpa's head,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/antonio-scarpa-s-head|title=Antonio Scarpa's Head|website=Atlas Obscura|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> the museum also displays his kidneys and four of his fingers. Other anatomical samples include the aneurysm that killed mathematician [[Vincenzo Brunacci]] in 1818, the bladder of naturalist [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]], who died of kidney cancer in 1799 as well as a plaster cast of [[Alessandro Volta|Alessandro Volta's]] unusually large skull.<ref name=":2" />

=== Museum of Electrical Technology ===
The Museum of Electrical Technology ({{langx|it|Museo della Tecnica Elettrica}}) is intended as a permanent tribute to Alessandro Volta. It has an area of 5,000 sqm, with 3,200 sqm reserved for visitors.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} It is divided into 5 sections, each section represents a different era of advancements in field of electricity and electronics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://museotecnica.unipv.eu/le-sezioni-del-museo/|title=le sezioni del museo {{!}} Museo Tecnica Elettrica|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424012617/http://museotecnica.unipv.eu/le-sezioni-del-museo/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nt24.it/2007/03/pavia-apre-il-museo-della-tecnica-elettrica/|title=Pavia: apre il Museo della Tecnica Elettrica|date=1 March 2007|website=Impianti elettrici – norme tecniche|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

The museum hosts over 4,000 pieces in its collections, including 300 pieces from the Enel collection, 3,028 pieces from the Sirti collection<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Savini|first1=A.|last2=Galdi|first2=R.|last3=Pietra|first3=F.|last4=Zanetta|first4=L.|last5=Bowers|first5=B.|title=2008 IEEE History of Telecommunications Conference |chapter=The SIRTI collection of telephones in the Pavia Museum of Electrical Technology |date=September 2008|pages=124–130|doi=10.1109/HISTELCON.2008.4668727|isbn=978-1-4244-2530-3|s2cid=42066614}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturaitalia.it/opencms/opencms/system/modules/com.culturaitalia_stage.liberologico/templates/viewItem.jsp?id=oai:culturaitalia.it:museiditalia-mus_5572|title=Cultura Italia: Museo della tecnica elettrica|website=www.culturaitalia.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> and over 1,000 pieces from the university's own collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/opencms/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Luogo/MibacUnif/Luoghi-della-Cultura/visualizza_asset.html?id=153510&pagename=57|title=Museo della tecnica elettrica|last=System|website=www.beniculturali.it|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://museotecnica.unipv.eu/collezioni/|title=Collezioni {{!}} Museo Tecnica Elettrica|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Galdi|first1=R.|last2=Pietra|first2=F.|last3=Savini|first3=A.|title=2012 Third IEEE HISTory of ELectro-technology CONference (HISTELCON) |chapter=Collecting the old and the new at the Pavia Museum of Electrical Technology |date=September 2012|pages=1–5|doi=10.1109/HISTELCON.2012.6487557|isbn=978-1-4673-3078-7|s2cid=44640787|doi-access=free}}</ref> The collection contains devices such as [[radiotelephone]]s, [[Power supply|power supplies]], [[amplifiers]], [[horn loudspeaker]]s, [[Electrical telegraph|morse telegraphs]], [[Transmitter|radio transmitters]] and [[Radio receiver|receivers]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/scienza-tecnologia/istituti/741/?current=1|title=Museo della Tecnica Elettrica, Pavia (PV) – Patrimonio scientifico e tecnologico – Lombardia Beni Culturali|website=www.lombardiabeniculturali.it|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref>
[[File:Kosmos (Pavia) rinoceronte.jpg|thumb|A selection of preserved animal specimens in the [[Natural History Museum, Pavia]]|alt=]]
In 2017, the museum implemented a 3D tactile map for the blind and disabled.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-4.unipv.it/3d/new-multisensory-map-mte-museum/|title=A new Multisensory Map for MTE Museum|date=19 December 2017|website=3D@UniPV|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-4.unipv.it/3d/research-activities/tactile-map-3d-printing-visual-impaired/|title=Tactile Map: 3D printing for Visual Impaired|website=3D@UniPV|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The museum also organizes exhibitions and projects with primary and secondary schools.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cani |first=Valentina |title=Time and science. A co-creative project between schools and Pavia university museums |url=https://www.academia.edu/36092160 |website=Academia.edu |access-date=24 April 2019 |archive-date=25 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325073417/https://www.academia.edu/36092160 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Museum of Natural History ===
{{Main|Natural History Museum, Pavia}}
The [[Natural History Museum, Pavia|Museum of Natural History]] ({{langx|it|Museo di Storia Naturale}}) dates back to 1769 when Lazzaro Spallanzani became professor on Natural History at the University of Pavia. The museum is divided into three sections — Comparative Anatomy, Zoology and Geopaleontology. The museum is currently located in [[Palazzo Botta Adorno]].

The museum hosts multiple collections including:
[[File:Museo Archeologia Università di Pavia.jpg|thumb|[[Museum of Archeology of the University of Pavia|Museum of Archeology]], University of Pavia|alt=]]
* the Spallanzani collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-spallanzani/|title=Collezione di Spallanzani {{!}} Museo di Storia Naturale|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=18 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318054125/http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-spallanzani/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which contains preserved specimens of the Nile crocodile (''[[Nile crocodile|Crocodylus niloticus]]''), hippopotamus (''[[Hippopotamus|Hippopotamus amphibius]]''), short-finned mako shark (''[[Shortfin mako shark|Isurus oxyrhynchus]]''), bottlenose dolphin (''[[Common bottlenose dolphin|Tursiops truncatus]]''), and small orangutan (''[[Bornean orangutan|Pongo pygmaeus]]'').
* the Zoology collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-zoologia/|title=Collezione di Zoologia {{!}} Museo di Storia Naturale|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424020403/http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-zoologia/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which contains over 5,000 specimens of vertebrates and invertebrates.
* the Geopaleontology collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-paleontologia/|title=Collezione di Paleontologia {{!}} Museo di Storia Naturale|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424020401/http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-paleontologia/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which contains over 30,000 fossil specimens, which date back the [[Pliocene]] and [[Miocene]] eras. The collections also includes 5,000 rocks and minerals and 65 slabs of fish from Bolca deposit.
* the Comparative Anatomy collection<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-anatomia-comparata/|title=Collezione di Anatomia Comparata {{!}} Museo di Storia Naturale|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424020400/http://musei.unipv.eu/storianat/collezioni/collezione-di-anatomia-comparata/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which contains more than 5,000 artifacts including skeletons, specimens and anatomical preparations of mainly vertebrates including an elephant,<ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Un giorno da Elefante|date=7 April 2017|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/34160718152/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> which underwent restoration in 2014.<ref>{{Citation|last=UCampus Università di Pavia|title=L'Università di Pavia presenta l'elefante indiano restaurato|date=27 April 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjkB3V9vGgc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/CjkB3V9vGgc |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=24 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== Museum of Archeology ===
{{Main|Museum of Archeology of the University of Pavia}}
The [[Museum of Archeology of the University of Pavia|Museum of Archeology]] ({{langx|it|Museo di Archeologia}}) had its first collection funded by [[Pietro Vittorio Aldini]] in 1819 for education purposes. Now, it houses different collections such as engraved coins and gems from the late Roman empire, Celtic and Byzantine eras, potteries, figurines dating back to 2000 BC and a pair of mummies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archeologia.unipv.eu/collezione-egizia-e-orientale/|title=Collezione egizia e orientale {{!}} Museo di Archeologia|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.museicivici.pavia.it/paviamusei/mcivici1.html|title=::Pavia Musei|website=www.museicivici.pavia.it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=20 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020113637/http://www.museicivici.pavia.it/paviamusei/mcivici1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://giornaledipavia.it/cultura-e-turismo/museo-di-archeologia-giornata-di-studi-sulle-due-mummie-egizie/|title=Museo di Archeologia: giornata di studi sulle due mummie egizie|date=3 December 2018|website=Giornale di Pavia|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Il nuovo Egyptian Corner all'Università di Pavia|date=11 March 2017|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/34348579084/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

=== Museum Camillo Golgi ===
[[File:Museo golgi.jpg|thumb|Museum Camillo Golgi, the laboratory, with the original tools, used by [[Camillo Golgi]] and his students]]
The Museum Camillo Golgi ({{langx|it|Museo Camillo Golgi}}) was built in honor of [[Camillo Golgi]] and his most important discoveries, the [[Golgi's method|black reaction]] to visualize [[neuron]]s<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Original Histological Slides of Camillo Golgi and His Discoveries on Neuronal Structure|last1=Mazzarello|first1=Paolo|last2=Berzero|first2=Antonella|date=2019|journal=Frontiers in Neuroanatomy|last3=Bertini|first3=Giuseppe|last4=Mariotto|first4=Sara|last5=Tesoriero|first5=Chiara|last6=Ferrari|first6=Sergio|last7=Cotrufo|first7=Tiziana|last8=Bentivoglio|first8=Marina|volume=13|article-number=3|pmid=30833889|doi=10.3389/fnana.2019.00003|pmc=6388087|s2cid=62896648|doi-access=free}}</ref> as well as his studies on [[malaria]]. The museum hosts a collection of his scientific publications and instruments used such as [[syringe]]s, [[microtome]]s, [[microscope]]s, original photographic plates of histological preparations, all dating back to the 1900s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://museocamillogolgi.unipv.eu/il-museo/|title=Il museo {{!}} Museo Camillo Golgi|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.museogolgi.it/gallery.htm|title=Museo Golgi|website=www.museogolgi.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The museum was set in the same building where he conducted most of his experiments via the Institute of General Pathology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brainmuseumtour.neuroscience.dal.ca/Italy_Golgi.html|title=Italy|website=brainmuseumtour.neuroscience.dal.ca|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

=== Pavia Botanical Garden ===
{{Main|Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pavia}}
The Pavia Botanical Garden ({{langx|it|Orto Botanico}}), which was established at the end of the 18th century, covers an area of 2 hectares.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-3.unipv.it/orto1773/|title=ORTO BOTANICO – DET|website=www-3.unipv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The botanical gardens host a seed and herbarium bank at its educational center, Bosco Siro Negri Park Reserve.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://boscosironegri.unipv.it/|title=Bosco Siro Negri – Riserva Naturale Integrale|website=boscosironegri.unipv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The garden hosts a variety of plant collections including [[rose]]s, [[Orchidaceae|orchids]] as well as other plant species native to [[Lombardy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coimbra-group.eu/wp-content/uploads/Pavia-Botanic-Garden.pdf|title=The Botanic Garden of the University of Pavia}}</ref>
[[File:OrtoBotanicoPavia-GiuseppeGregorelli-005.JPG|thumb|[[Orto Botanico dell'Università di Pavia|Pavia Botanical Garden]], 1773|alt=]]

=== Museum of Mineralogy ===
The Museum of Mineralogy ({{langx|it|Museo di Mineralogia}}) originated from a section dedicated to minerals in the Museum of Natural History. The museum hosts a large collection of rocks and minerals, categorized systematically.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.it/Mineralogia/collezionihome.htm|title=Museo di Mineralogia|website=musei.unipv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> The collection also includes minerals from different Italian regions. In 1923. Professor [[Angela Bianchini|Angelo Bianchi]] donated rock samples which he had collected earlier in his career. Each sample was meticulously described in details in his various scientific publications.

The museum also displays a collection of [[meteorite]]s which fell around [[Siena]] at the end of the 18th century<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://meteore.uai.it/meteorite_siena/siena.htm|title=La caduta di sassi a Siena nel 1794 – Siena meteorite fall of 1794|website=meteore.uai.it|access-date=25 April 2019}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and were collected by [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]].

=== Center of Manuscripts ===
The Center of Manuscripts<ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Il Centro Manoscritti dell'Università di Pavia|date=6 February 2018|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/38879887080/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> ({{langx|it|Centro di ricerca sulla tradizione manoscritta di autori moderni e contemporane}} or {{langx|it|Centro Manuscritto}}) was formally established on 24 January 1980; however, in 1969, [[Maria Corti]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fondazionemariacorti.org/|title=Archivi {{!}} Biblioteche speciali {{!}} Fondazione Maria Corti|website=fondazionemariacorti|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=21 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421012110/https://www.fondazionemariacorti.org/|url-status=dead}}</ref> a professor at the University of Pavia, had an idea to set up a Manuscript Fund ({{langx|it|Fondo Manoscritti}}), dedicated to preserving writings and manuscripts from twentieth-century authors. The center hosts a collection of writings and manuscripts from writers of the last two centuries including manuscripts and papers handwritten by the poet [[Eugenio Montale]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://centromanoscritti.unipv.it/il-centro.html|title=Il Centro|website=centromanoscritti.unipv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> as well as various autographed editions of the novel the Philosophy of Madonna ({{langx|it|La Madonna dei filosofi}}) by [[Carlo Emilio Gadda]], and an annotated edition of the manuscript for My Cousin Andrea ({{langx|it|Mio cugino Andrea}}) by [[Romano Bilenchi]]. The collection preserved by the center covers more than 200 authors.
[[File:Il Centro Manoscritti dell'Università di Pavia (25818912277).jpg|thumb|Center of Manuscripts]]
The center is located at the [[Old Campus of the University of Pavia|Palazzo Centrale]] of the University of Pavia, and a branch is recently added to one of the university's sites at Via Luino.

=== Other collections ===
The university also hosts special collections which are accessible only by appointments. These collections are not accessible by the public:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musei.unipv.eu/collezioni-museali/|title=Altre collezioni {{!}} Sistema Museale d'Ateneo|last=Spizzi|first=Dante|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

* Physiology collections covers 300 various instruments used in physiological research, such as galvanometers, scales, devices for measuring tactile sensation and pain sensitivity and so on. The collection is hosted by the Department of Molecular Medicine.
* Histology and embryology collections covers over 10,000 histological slides of different tissues and organs, embryological models in wax as well as microscopes and other instruments. The collection is hosted by the Department of Experimental Medicine.
* Musicology collections<ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=CERIMONIA DI INAUGURAZIONE DELLA COLLEZIONE DI STRUMENTI MUSICALI DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI MUSICOLOGIA E BENI CULTURALI – 12 giugno 2017|date=12 June 2017|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/35891224702/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref> covers about 1,100 works including 80 musical instruments such as [[aerophone]]s, [[chordophone]]s and [[idiophone]]s, as well as thousands of [[Piano roll|perforated rolls for antique pianos]]. The collection is hosted by the Department of Music.
* Cattaneo collection covers preserved [[Microscope slide|anatomical and histological preparations]] in the fields of [[osteology]], [[angiology]], [[splanchnology]], [[esthesiology]], [[neurology]] and [[topographic anatomy]]. The collection is hosted by the Public Health, Neurosciences, Experimental and Forensic Medicine.

==Academics==
The university offers degree programmes in two languages:

* Italian – Most of the courses in the University of Pavia are taught in Italian.
* English – One single-cycle master's degree, one undergraduate degree and eight master's degrees are offered in English. These degrees are:

:# Three-year undergraduate degree in Artificial intelligence
:# Six-year degree in [[Medicine]] and [[Surgery]]
:# Master's degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG)
:# Master's degree in Electronic Engineering
:# Master's degree in Computer Engineering
:# Master's degree in Industrial Automation Engineering
:# Master's degree in International Business and Entrepreneurship (MIBE)
:# Master's degree in Economics, Finance and International Integration (MEFI)
:# Master's degree in World Politics and International Relations
:# Master’s degree in Psychology, Neuroscience and Human Sciences

== Colleges ==
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=== EDISU public colleges===
EDISU Pavia is an agency established by the university in order to manage activities and services related to the right of study. It manages 4 refectories and 12 public colleges, which are:<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.edisu.pv.it/index.php?page=colleges-and-university-residences|title=EDiSU – EDiSU Colleges|website=www.edisu.pv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

* Collegio Fratelli Cairoli (male)
* Collegio Gerolamo Cardano (male and female) 
* Collegio Lazzaro Spallanzani (male)
* Collegio Lorenzo Valla (mixed)
* [[Collegio Castiglioni Brugnatelli|Collegio Castiglioni-Brugnatelli]] (female)
* Collegio Plinio Fraccaro (male) 
* Collegio Benvenuto Griziotti (male and female)
* Residenze Golgi I and II (male and female)
[[File:Collegio castiglioni facciata.jpg|thumb|[[Collegio Castiglioni Brugnatelli]]]]
* Collegio Alessandro Volta (male and female)
* Collegio Giasone del Maino (male and female) 
* Collegio Universitario Quartier Novo

=== Private and public colleges ===
* [[Collegio Borromeo]] (male and female)
* [[Ghislieri College|Collegio Ghislieri]] (male and female)
* Collegio Nuovo (female)
* Collegio Santa Caterina da Siena (female)

==Notable alumni and academics==
{{See also|Category:University of Pavia alumni}}
{{columns-list|colwidth=20em|
* [[Luigi Cremona]], mathematician<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/068393a0.pdf|title=The Philosopher's Stone|journal=Nature |date=August 1903 |volume=68 |issue=1765 |pages=393–394 |doi=10.1038/068393a0 |s2cid=41614259 }}</ref>
* [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli]], naturalist<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kreft|first1=Marko|last2=Zorec|first2=Robert|date=23 April 2008|title=Truth about a plant with many names|journal=Nature|volume=452|issue=7190|pages=934|doi=10.1038/452934d|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=2008Natur.452R.934K|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Marco Fraccaro]], geneticist<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Jacobs|first1=Patricia A.|last2=Robson|first2=Bette|date=24 July 2008|title=Marco Fraccaro|journal=European Journal of Human Genetics|volume=16|issue=8|pages=1024|doi=10.1038/ejhg.2008.126|issn=1476-5438|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Agostino Bassi]], entomologist<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ainsworth|first=G. C.|date=February 1956|title=Agostino Bassi, 1773–1856|journal=Nature|volume=177|issue=4502|pages=255–257|doi=10.1038/177255a0|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1956Natur.177..255A|s2cid=4161144}}</ref>
* [[Edoardo Storti]], hematologist<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ribatti|first=D.|date=23 August 2006|title=Obituary|journal=Leukemia|volume=20|issue=9|pages=1650|doi=10.1038/sj.leu.2404309|issn=1476-5551|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Leopoldo Maggi]], zoologist<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1 May 1940|title=Leopoldo Maggi (1840–1906)|journal=Nature|volume=145|issue=3680|pages=736|doi=10.1038/145736b0|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1940Natur.145R.736.|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[St. Charles Borromeo|Charles Borromeo]], archbishop<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Charles-Borromeo|title=St. Charles Borromeo {{!}} Italian cardinal and archbishop|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=26 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Michele Ghislieri]], Pope Pio V<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cronologia.leonardo.it/biogra2/piov.htm|title=PIO V – ANTONIO MICHELE GHISLIERI – BIOGRAFIA|website=cronologia.leonardo.it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424033120/https://cronologia.leonardo.it/biogra2/piov.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Cesare Beccaria]], jurist and philosopher<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesare-Beccaria|title=Cesare Beccaria {{!}} Italian criminologist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Eugenio Beltrami]], mathematician and physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Beltrami.html|title=Eugenio Beltrami (1835–1900)|website=www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Sigismondo Boldoni]], writer, philosopher, physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it//enciclopedia/sigismondo-boldoni_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=BOLDONI, Sigismondo in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=9 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909202924/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sigismondo-boldoni_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Gerolamo Cardano]], mathematician, physician, astrologer and gambler<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|last=Giglioni|first=Guido|title=Girolamo [Geronimo] Cardano|date=2019|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/cardano/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|editor-last=Zalta|editor-first=Edward N.|edition=Summer 2019|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza]], [[population genetics|population geneticist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/09/luigi-luca-cavalli-sforza-a-giant-in-population-genetics-dies-at-96.html|title=Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a giant in population genetics and professor emeritus, dies at 96|website=News Center|date=10 September 2018 |access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/hdy196366.pdf|title=The Reconstruction of Evolution|journal=Heredity |date=November 1963 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=551–555 |doi=10.1038/hdy.1963.66 |s2cid=46541060 }}</ref>
* [[Anthony William Fairbank Edwards]], geneticist<ref name=":12" />
* [[Paolo Ettore Gamba]], 2013 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
* [[Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti]], physician and scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/corti-alfonso-giacomo-gaspare|title=Corti, Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Baldus de Ubaldis]], jurist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1617&context=ylj|title=Baldus de Ubaldis}}</ref>
* [[Contardo Ferrini]], jurist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kateriirondequoit.org/resources/saints-alive/caedmon-cyril-tejedor/bl-contardo-ferrini/|title=Bl. Contardo Ferrini {{!}} Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Parish – Irondequoit, NY|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424033111/https://www.kateriirondequoit.org/resources/saints-alive/caedmon-cyril-tejedor/bl-contardo-ferrini/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Ugo Foscolo]], writer, revolutionary and poet<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cesareangelini.it/studi_foscolo_pavia.html|title=I GIORNI DEL FOSCOLO A A PAVIA|website=www.cesareangelini.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Guglielmo Gasparrini]], botanist and mycologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unina.it/-/1318019-gasparrini-scoperto-busto-all-orto-botanico|title=Gasparrini, scoperto busto all'Orto Botanico {{!}} In Ateneo|website=www.unina.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it//enciclopedia/guglielmo-gasparrini_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=GASPARRINI, Guglielmo in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=25 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325182439/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/guglielmo-gasparrini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Camillo Golgi]], Nobel prize in Medicine and Physiology<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Camillo-Golgi|title=Camillo Golgi {{!}} Italian physician and cytologist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/golgi/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Giulio Natta]], Nobel prize in Chemistry<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it//enciclopedia/giulio-natta_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=NATTA, Giulio in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=28 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428083050/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giulio-natta_(Dizionario-Biografico)|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1963/natta/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giulio-Natta|title=Giulio Natta {{!}} Italian chemist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Otto Ohlendorf]] (1907–1951), SS general and Holocaust perpetrator, executed for war crimes<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Capani|first=Jennifer B.|title=PhD Dissertation|url=https://www.academia.edu/38138895|journal=An 'Alter Kampfer' at the Forefront of the Holocaust: Otto Ohlendorf Between Careerism and Nazi Fundamentalism|date=January 2017}}</ref>
* [[Gian Domenico Romagnosi]], jurist, philosopher and economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/romagnosi-gian-domenico-1761-1835|title=Romagnosi, Gian Domenico (1761–1835) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Carlo Rubbia]], Nobel prize in Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eng.cumt.edu.cn/cb/7f/c489a314239/page.htm|title=Nobel Prize Winner, Professor Carlo Rubbia Delivered a Wonderful Report for Students of the High School Affiliated to CUMT.|website=eng.cumt.edu.cn|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424034052/http://eng.cumt.edu.cn/cb/7f/c489a314239/page.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rubbia_Carlo|title=Academy of Europe: Rubbia Carlo|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Scarpa]], physician and scientist<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Grzybowski|first1=Andrzej|last2=Sak|first2=Jarosław|date=February 2013|title=Antonio Scarpa (1752–1832) |journal=Journal of Neurology|volume=260|issue=2|pages=695–696|doi=10.1007/s00415-012-6658-4|issn=0340-5354|pmc=3566389|pmid=22926229}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bruce Fye|first=W.|date=April 1997|title=Antonio Scarpa|journal=Clinical Cardiology|volume=20|issue=4|pages=411–412|doi=10.1002/clc.4960200422|pmid=9098606|pmc=6655827}}</ref>
* [[Dionysios Solomos]], poet<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ellines.com/en/myths/19800-o-ethnikos-poiitis-tis-elladas/|title=DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS - The national poet of Greece|website=www.ellines.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/229272/celebrating-the-greek-letters-dionysios-solomos/|title=Celebrating the Greek Letters & Dionysios Solomos|last=Sakellis|first=Eleni|date=11 February 2019|website=The National Herald|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424042057/https://www.thenationalherald.com/229272/celebrating-the-greek-letters-dionysios-solomos/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.europeana.eu/portal/it/explore/people/63043-dionysios-solomos.html|title=Dionysios Solomos|website=Collezioni Europeana|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lazzaro Spallanzani]], biologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lazzaro-Spallanzani|title=Lazzaro Spallanzani {{!}} Italian physiologist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/biology-biographies/lazzaro-spallanzani|title=Lazzaro Spallanzani {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lorenzo Valla]], humanist and philologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/scholars-antiquarians-and-orientalists-biographies/lorenzo-valla|title=Lorenzo Valla {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lorenzo-Valla|title=Lorenzo Valla {{!}} Italian humanist|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.umass.edu/wsp/philology/gallery/valla.html|title=Gallery of Philologists {{!}} Lorenzo Valla|website=www.umass.edu|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=5 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505222839/https://www.umass.edu/wsp/philology/gallery/valla.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Alessandro Volta]], scientist, developer of the first [[Battery (electricity)|electric cell]]<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Volta|title=Alessandro Volta {{!}} Biography, Facts, & Invention|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/alessandro-volta|title=Alessandro Volta {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Marcantonio della Torre]], anatomy mentor of Leonardo da Vinci<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/anat/hd_anat.htm |website=www.metmuseum.org |access-date=9 April 2023 |title=Anatomy in the Renaissance |date=October 2002 |lang=en }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/torre-marcantonio-della|title=Torre, Marcantonio Della {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/NEH-Institute/essays/jones|title=Leonardo da Vinci Between Art and Science {{!}} Jones|website=faculty.virginia.edu|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424042110/http://faculty.virginia.edu/Fiorani/NEH-Institute/essays/jones|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Angela Agostini]], botanist and mycologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/1119-agostini-angela|title=Agostini Angela — Scienza a due voci|website=scienzaa2voci.unibo.it|access-date=25 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Giulio Tremonti]], politician and lawyer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www-3.unipv.it/webdept/p_21.htm|title=Dipartimento economia pubblica e territoriale Università di Pavia|website=www-3.unipv.it|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Antonio Lanzavecchia]], immunologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irb.usi.ch/antonio-lanzavecchia|title=Antonio Lanzavecchia {{!}} IRB|website=www.irb.usi.ch|access-date=20 April 2019|archive-date=5 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705060839/http://www.irb.usi.ch/antonio-lanzavecchia|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Carlo Marangoni]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01742996/document |title=Albert Einstein and the Marangoni family |date=September 2017 |access-date=20 April 2019 |last1=Bracco |first1=Christian |website=HAL Archives}}</ref>
* [[Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli]], chemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luigi-valentino-brugnatelli_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=BRUGNATELLI, Luigi Valentino in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* [[Roger Joseph Boscovich|Ruggiero G. Boscovich]], mathematician, astronomer<ref>{{Cite arXiv|title=Bonaparte and the astronomers of Brera Observatory|eprint = 1405.6841|last1 = Antonello|first1 = E.|class = physics.hist-ph|year = 2014}}</ref>
* [[Giulio Bizzozero]], pathologist<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mazzarello|first1=Paolo|last2=Calligaro|first2=Alberto|last3=Calligaro|first3=Alessandro L.|last4=Mazzarello|first4=Paolo|date=October 2001|title=Giulio Bizzozero: a pioneer of cell biology|journal=Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology|volume=2|issue=10|pages=776–784|doi=10.1038/35096085|pmid=11584305|s2cid=22705707|issn=1471-0080}}</ref>
* [[Simone Stratico]], engineer<ref>{{Cite journal|last=S|first=E. C.|date=1 July 1922|title=Calendar of Industrial Pioneers|journal=Nature|volume=110|issue=2750|pages=99|doi=10.1038/110099a0|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1922Natur.110...99E|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Giuseppe Sanarelli]], hygienist<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rolleston|first=J. D.|date=July 1940|title=Prof. Giuseppe Sanarelli|journal=Nature|volume=146|issue=3689|pages=54–55|doi=10.1038/146054b0|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1940Natur.146...54R|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[William Sharpey]], anatomist<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1 April 1880|title=William Sharpey M.D., F.R.S.|journal=Nature|volume=21|issue=546|pages=567–568|doi=10.1038/021567a0|issn=1476-4687|bibcode=1880Natur..21..567.|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Enrico Caffi]], priest<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=46|title=Storia|website=www.museoscienzebergamo.it|access-date=28 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Giuseppe Antonio Borgnis]], engineer<ref>D. Cardwell: The Norton History of Technology, Norton (1995)</ref>}}

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==Honorary degrees==
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* [[Agustino Gemelli]], psychologist<ref>{{Cite journal|date=March 1939|title=An Italian Psychologist|journal=Nature|volume=143|issue=3618|pages=353–354|doi=10.1038/143353a0|s2cid=186244379|issn=1476-4687}}</ref>
* [[Paolo Conte]], pianist and composer<ref>{{Citation|last=UCampus Università di Pavia|title=Laurea honoris causa a Paolo Conte (cerimonia integrale)|date=11 October 2017|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hF-KaXimk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/-2hF-KaXimk |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=24 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.varesenews.it/2017/09/laurea-honoris-causa-in-musicologia-a-paolo-conte/654793/|title=Laurea honoris causa in musicologia a Paolo Conte|date=26 September 2017|website=VareseNews|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.unipv.it/?p=24735|title=news.unipv – 9 ottobre – UNIPV conferisce la laurea honoris causa in Musicologia a Paolo Conte|website=news.unipv|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea honoris causa a Paolo Conte|date=9 October 2017|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/37372752110/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Warren Irkendale]], American musicologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olschki.it/catalogo/autore/4150|title=Ursula and Warren Kirkendale {{!}} Casa editrice Leo S. Olschki|website=www.olschki.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Roger Bannister]], athlete and neurologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://guides.library.nymc.edu/c.php?g=438578&p=3486769|title=LibGuides: First Day Covers from the Collection of Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A.: Sir Roger Bannister|last=Messana|first=Victoria|website=guides.library.nymc.edu|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton|Kenneth William]], Lord Wedderburn of Charlton;
* [[Pierre Darriulat]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vietnamscience.vn/index.php/VJSTE/editorial_board/PierreDarriulat|title=Pierre Darriulat {{!}} Vietnam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering|website=vietnamscience.vn|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424042056/http://vietnamscience.vn/index.php/VJSTE/editorial_board/PierreDarriulat|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Karl Alex Müller]], 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Physics<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1987/muller/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987|website=NobelPrize.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Graham John Hills]], physical chemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/hills_graham.pdf|title=Graham John Hills|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424042106/https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/hills_graham.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Jerzy Kroh]], chemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lodz.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=309&catid=61&Itemid=162|title=Zmarł prof. Jerzy Kroh|website=lodz.pan.pl|access-date=24 April 2019}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* [[Herbert A. Simon]], economist<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1988|title=Laurea " ad honorem " in Scienze Politiche a Herbert A. Simon (Università di Pavia, 12 ottobre 1988)|journal=Il Politico|volume=53|issue=4 (148)|pages=723–728|issn=0032-325X|jstor=43100874}}</ref>
* [[Agostino Casaroli]], priest<ref name=":11">{{Cite journal|last1=Cossiga|first1=Francesco|last2=Schmid|first2=Roberto|last3=Scaramozzino|first3=Pasquale|last4=Ara|first4=Angelo|last5=Colombo|first5=Arturo|date=1991|title=LAUREA " HONORIS CAUSA " IN SCIENZE POLITICHE A RICHARD VON WEIZSÄCKER E AGOSTINO CASAROLI (Università di Pavia, 28 giugno 1991)|journal=Il Politico|volume=56|issue=2 (158)|pages=375–392|issn=0032-325X|jstor=43101202}}</ref>
* [[Richard von Weizsäcker]], politician<ref name=":11" />
* [[Robert Triffin]], economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cdn.uclouvain.be/groups/cms-editors-euro/documents/Inventaire_papiers_Triffin.pdf|title=Inventaire des papiers Triffin}}</ref>
* [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]], politician and banker<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://presidenti.quirinale.it/Ciampi/dinamico/ContinuaCiampi.aspx?tipo=visita&key=28465|title=Visita del Presidente Ciampi|website=presidenti.quirinale.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Sandro Molinari]], economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/619|title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana|website=www.quirinale.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Carlo M. Cipolla]], historian<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.treccani.it//enciclopedia/carlo-cipolla_(Dizionario-Biografico)|title=CIPOLLA, Carlo in "Dizionario Biografico"|website=www.treccani.it|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=28 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528220000/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-cipolla_(Dizionario-Biografico)|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Federico Faggin]], engineer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1197.html|title=Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica a Federico Faggin|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065006/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1197.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Thomas J. R. Hughes]], engineer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1227.html|title=Laurea in Ingegneria Civile a Thomas J. R. Hughes|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065005/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1227.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Alvaro Siza Vieira]], architect<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1228.html|title=Laurea in Ingegneria Edile – Architettura ad Alvaro Siza Vieira|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065006/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1228.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Richard Stallman]], programmer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1229.html|title=Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica a Richard Stallman|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065006/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1229.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stallman.org/biographies.html|title=Biography|website=stallman.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Irene Hijmans-Tromp]], linguist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1195.html|title=Laurea in Lettere a Moni Ovadia e Irene Hijmans-Tromp|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065012/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1195.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Giovanni Berlucchi]], neurologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1191.html|title=Laurea in Psicologia a Giovanni Berlucchi|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065010/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1191.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Theodore Lowi]], political scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2008/10/interview-contrarian-ted-lowi|title=Contrarian Ted Lowi rails against presidential power and the 'history of illegitimacy' in America|website=Cornell Chronicle|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa T.J. Lowi|date=5 September 2008|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16543200394/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Salvatore Ruggeri]], economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.valvitalia.com/static/upload/sal/salvatore-ruggeri.pdf|title=Salvatore Ruggeri}}</ref>
* [[Otmar Issing]], economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://som.yale.edu/blog/interview-with-otmar-issing|title=Interview with Otmar Issing|date=24 December 2013|website=Yale School of Management|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifk-cfs.de/about/organization/president.html|title=President|date=19 March 2019|website=www.ifk-cfs.de|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa a Salvatore Ruggeri e Otmar Issing – 22/11/2010|date=22 November 2010|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16979677939/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Paul Janssen]], physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pauljanssenaward.com/|title=Dr. Paul Janssen Award|website=Dr. Paul Janssen Award|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/academicians/deceased/janssen.html|title=Paul Janssen|website=www.pas.va|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=29 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129062337/http://www.pas.va/content/accademia/en/academicians/deceased/janssen.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Giorgio Strehler]], director<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/1992/11/18/Altro/TEATRO-LAUREA-HONORIS-CAUSA-A-GIORGIO-STREHLER_170700.php|title=TEATRO: LAUREA HONORIS CAUSA A GIORGIO STREHLER|website=www1.adnkronos.com|date=18 November 1992 |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Torsten N. Wiesel|Torsten Wiesel]], neurophysiologist<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1296.html|title=Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia a Torsten N. Wiesel e Marc Tessier-Lavigne|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065013/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1296.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa a T. Wiesel e M.Tessier-Lavigne 19 settembre 2006|date=19 September 2006|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16979879899/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Marc Tessier-Lavigne]], researcher<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.stanford.edu/features/2016/president-named/tessier-lavigne-cv.pdf|title=Tessier-Lavigne CV|date=23 January 2023|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=13 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013193919/https://news.stanford.edu/features/2016/president-named/tessier-lavigne-cv.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Rodolfo Llinas]], neuroscientist<ref name="unipv.eu">{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1295.html|title=Laurea in Neurobiologia a Rodolfo Llinas e Gordon Shepherd|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065006/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1295.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[John Eliot Gardiner]], conductor<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://74.50.30.33/about/gardiner|title=Sir John Eliot Gardiner {{!}} Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras|website=74.50.30.33|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424065006/http://74.50.30.33/about/gardiner|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1294.html|title=Laurea in Musicologia a John Eliot Gardiner|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424070627/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1294.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa a E. Gardiner|date=16 April 2015|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16979983419/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Christopher G.A. McGregor]], physician,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1299.html|title=Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia a Christopher G.A. McGregor|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424070627/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1299.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[A. Bernard Ackerman]], physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1298.html|title=Laurea in Medicina e Chirurgia ad Albert Bernard Ackerman|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424070621/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1298.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Mirjan Damaška]], jurist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.duncker-humblot.de/_files_media/leseproben/9783428550227.pdf|title=Visions of Justice}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1297.html|title=Laurea in Giurisprudenza a Mirjan Damaska|website=www.unipv.eu|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424070622/http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ateneo/organi-di-governo/rettore/articolo1297.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Gordon M. Shepherd|Gordon Shepherd]], neuroscientist <ref name="unipv.eu" />
* [[Altiero Spinelli]], politician<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1988|title=Laurea " ad honorem " in Scienze Politiche a Altiero Spinelli (alla memoria)|journal=Il Politico|volume=53|issue=2 (146)|pages=331–335|issn=0032-325X|jstor=43100718}}</ref>
* [[Gianfranco Acchiappati]], physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lombardiarchivi.servizirl.it/creators/4314|title=Acchiappati, Gianfranco}}</ref>
* [[Umberto Mortari]], pharmacist<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.gelocal.it/laprovinciapavese/archivio/laprovinciapavese/2005/10/13/PC4PO_PC403.html|title=Due lauree ad honorem – la Provincia Pavese|website=Archivio – la Provincia Pavese|date=13 October 2005 |language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Alessandro Rigamonti]], chemist<ref name=":6" />
* [[Robert E. Kahn]], programmer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/robert-kahn|title=Robert Kahn {{!}} IEEE Computer Society|date=28 March 2018 |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/cerf-kahn-bio.html|title=Dr. Vinton Cerf and Dr. Robert Kahn|website=georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.japanprize.jp/en/prize_prof_2008_kahn.html|title=The Japan Prize Foundation|website=www.japanprize.jp|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Fritz Leonhardt]], structural engineer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sefindia.org/forum/files/fritz_leonhardt_1_2007_205.pdf|title=Fritz Leonhardt}}</ref>
* [[Pasquale Pistorio]], engineer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stfoundation.org/board/pasquale-pistorio/|title=Pasquale Pistorio|last=adminst|website=ST Foundation|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424074024/https://www.stfoundation.org/board/pasquale-pistorio/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=206119&privcapId=138644|title=Pasquale Antonio Pistorio: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg|website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[John Heilbron]], historian<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/units/fhp/awards/pais/heilbron.cfm|title=Announcement of 2nd Pais Prize to John L. Heilbron|website=www.aps.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Tomaso Poggio]], neuroscientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cbmm.mit.edu/about/people/poggio|title=Tomaso Poggio {{!}} The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines|website=cbmm.mit.edu|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Diana Bracco]], chemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.assolombarda.it/chi-siamo/presidenti/diana-bracco|title=Diana Bracco, President}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldfoodforum.eu/speakers/diana-bracco/|title=Diana Bracco {{!}} World Food Research and Innovation Forum|website=worldfoodforum.eu|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424074018/http://worldfoodforum.eu/speakers/diana-bracco/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Aldo Poli]], economist<ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa ad Aldo Poli|date=29 October 2012|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16544850163/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
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==Medaglia teresiana==
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The ''Medaglia teresiana'' is an academic recognition that establishes the entry of a full professor in the University of Pavia. This award can also be conferred by the Rector of the University of Pavia to people who are particularly distinguished, traditionally hosted at the inauguration of the academic year or the day of the graduates:

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* [[Massimo Inguscio]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.agriculturabg.it/tag/massimo-inguscio/|title=Massimo Inguscio – Agricultura e diritto al cibo|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Salomone Ovadia]], actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tio.ch/dal-mondo/355130/teatro-laurea-honoris-causa-in-lettere-a-moni-ovadia|title=TEATRO: LAUREA HONORIS CAUSA IN LETTERE A MONI OVADIA|date=11 October 2007|website=Ticinonline|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea Honoris Causa a Moni Ovadia|date=22 October 2007|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/16535421663/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Manuel Cardona]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Cardona_Manuel/CV|title=Academy of Europe: CV|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eventos.fis.cinvestav.mx/spec/vitae2001.pdf|title=Manuel Cardona CV}}</ref>
* [[Barbara Casadei]], cardiologist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.escardio.org/static_file/Escardio/Web/About/Documents/2016-elections-BCasadei-manifesto.pdf|title=Barbara Casadei's CV|access-date=24 April 2019|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424051338/https://www.escardio.org/static_file/Escardio/Web/About/Documents/2016-elections-BCasadei-manifesto.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://colnuovo.unipv.it/news_en.php?anno=2017#.XL_wYpMzaAw|title=Collegio Nuovo – Fondazione Sandra e Enea Mattei|website=colnuovo.unipv.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-casadei-oxford/|title=LinkedIn CV}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=AHA Journals |doi=10.1161/circulationaha.108.191138 |doi-access=free |journal=Circulation}}</ref>
* [[Janusz Turowski (professor)|Janusz Turkowski]], engineer<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lAhEDwAAQBAJ&q=Medaglia+teresiana&pg=PR24|title=Engineering Electrodynamics: Electric Machine, Transformer, and Power Equipment Design|last1=Turowski|first1=Janusz|last2=Turowski|first2=Marek|date=19 December 2017|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781351831604}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crcpress.com/authors/i1530-janusz-turowski/bio/|title=Bio Janusz Turowski, Author, Engineering Electrodynamics|website=www.crcpress.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Martin M. Block]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/martin-m-block/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Martin M. Block|work=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/units/fhp/newsletters/fall2017/block.cfm|title=In Memory of Martin M. Block|website=www.aps.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Francesco Lissoni]], economist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/unipv/status/806444118268375040|title=Consegna della medaglia teresiana al prof. Lissoni cerimonia d'inaugurazione corsi di #dottorato di #ricerca #unipvpic.twitter.com/rJpWWI618N|last=Pavia|first=Università di|date=7 December 2016|website=@unipv|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anvur.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CV_Francesco_Lissoni_2017.pdf|title=CV, Francesco Lissoni}}</ref>
* [[Ben Feringa]], Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/ERC_Research/status/867397281204645888|title=Congratulations! 2016 #NobelPrize and ERC grantee Ben Feringa awarded with the Medaglia teresiana .|last=Europe|first=E. R. C.|date=24 May 2017|website=@ERC_Research|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Samantha Cristoforetti]], astronaut<ref>{{Citation|last=Telepavia On Demand|title=Samantha Cristoforetti riceve la Medaglia Teresiana dell'Università di Pavia|date=7 March 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HELjsFfpQAs |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/HELjsFfpQAs |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=24 April 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Pavia|first=Università di|title=Laurea honoris causa a Samantha Cristoforetti|date=9 November 2017|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/unipavia/38274905652/|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Herbert Freeman]], computer scientist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iapr.org/members/newsletter/Newsletter11-03/index_files/Page751.htm|title=Get to Know|website=www.iapr.org|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Fabrizio Capobianco]], entrepreneur <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/scienze/09_luglio_06/funambol_pavia_rizzi_a2711418-6a16-11de-801a-00144f02aabc.shtml|title=Capobianco, da Pavia alla Silicon Valley – Corriere della Sera|website=www.corriere.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Paul Alivisatos]], chemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/area-stampa/documento5216.html|title=La Provincia Pavese}}</ref>
* [[Renato Balduzzi]], politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.itinerariosociopolitico.it/17/relatori-2015/74/renato-balduzzi.html|title=Renato Balduzzi – Itinerario di ricerca e formazioni all'impegno sociale e politico|website=www.itinerariosociopolitico.it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Beppe Severgnini]], journalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pad.unipv.it/autori/beppe-severgnini%ef%bb%bf/|title=Beppe Severgnini – Pavia Archivi Digitali|language=it-IT|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beppesevergnini.com/chi-sono/|title=Biografia|website=Beppe Severgnini|language=it-IT|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Eliot Forster]], entrepreneur<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1065912640445313024|title=Il Rettore #unipv #FabioRugge consegna al dott. #EliotForster gli omaggi e la medaglia teresiana inaugurazione #dottorati #ricerca #unipv 2018/2019pic.twitter.com/n1pSZMsfnT|last=Pavia|first=Università di|date=23 November 2018|website=@i|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Andrea Cavalleri]], physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cfel.de/news_archive/2018/news_2018/european_academy_of_sciences/index_eng.html|website=www.cfel.de|access-date=9 April 2023 |title=Andrea Cavalleri is elected member of the European Academy of Sciences |lang=en |date=2018}}</ref>
* [[Elena Cattaneo]], researcher<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.unipv.it/?p=16159|title=news.unipv – 20 ottobre – Storie di Scienza, Cellule e Libertà|website=news.unipv|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Pietro Grasso]], politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/pavia/cronaca/anno-accademico-grasso-1.3532713|title=Grasso a Pavia: "Ragazzi, dal vostro impegno dipende il cambiamento dell'Italia"|last=MARZIANI|first=MANUELA|date=13 November 2017|website=Il Giorno|language=it|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Jacques Le Goff]], historian<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|url=http://www1.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/2000/10/24/Cultura/FILOSOFIA-PER-LE-GOFF-E-MAROTTA-LAUREE-ONORARIE-A-PAVIA_141200.php|title=FILOSOFIA: PER LE GOFF E MAROTTA LAUREE ONORARIE A PAVIA|website=www1.adnkronos.com|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Gerardo Marotta]], lawyer and philosopher<ref name=":10" />
* [[Salvatore Ruggeri]], politician<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tagpress.it/politica/salvatore-ruggeri-assessore-welfare-20171229|title=Ruggeri assessore regionale al Welfare. Sostituisce il cognato deceduto|date=29 December 2017|website=TagPress.it|language=it-IT|access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=":7" />
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== See also ==
* [[Policlinico San Matteo]]
* [[Coimbra Group]] (a network of leading European universities)
*[[European University Association]]
* [[List of Italian universities]]
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