Sapienza University of Rome

Columns: Alumni and professors | Academic degree | Note
Maria Montessori | Natural sciences | Founder of the Montessori method of education , regarded to be one of the most influential female physicians | Federico Fellini | Law | One of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century | Evangelista Torricelli | Physics | Inventor of the barometer . He made significant contributions in optics and on the method of indivisibles | Enrico Fermi | Physics | Physicist , colleague and close friend of Ettore Majorana . A key figure in the creation of the atomic bomb , he discovered : new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation , controlled nuclear chain reaction . He is also known for the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the theory of beta decay | Emilio Gino Segrè | Physics | Physicist , colleague and close friend of Ettore Majorana . A key figure in the creation of the atomic bomb , he helped discover the antiproton and the elements astatine , and technetium | Daniel Bovet | Psychobiology | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( 1957 ) for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters . He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines , which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication | Pietro Belluschi | Civil Engineering | Leader of the Modern Movement in architecture . Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning ( 1951-1965 ) . Collaborator and Design Consultant for Pan Am Building

Example questions:
This Sapienza University of Rome alumnus and Italian director and screenwriter co-wrote a screenplay about the life of Puyi with what other writer ? | Where was the Jewish mathematician and physicist born who was noted for his derivation of the predator-prey equations as a Sapienza University of Rome alumnus ? | Besides this Italian mathematician and Sapienza alumnus born in 1928 , what other mathematician independently solved Hilbert 's nineteenth problem ? | What is the full name of this Italian physician and educator , a Sapienza University of Rome alumnus , who was noted for her child-centered educational method ?

Answers:
Mark Peploe | Ancona | John Forbes Nash , Jr | Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori