University of Palermo (UNIPA)
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- Viale delle Scienze90128 Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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The University of Palermo (UNIPA) stands as a consolidated cultural, scientific, and teaching presence in central-western Sicily. Its 12 Faculties and 80 Departments cover the most important domains of contemporary scientific and technological knowledge. After the Second World War which cause huge losses among the personnel and severe damage to structures, the University can recover despite the limited economic resources and social disorientation. From there, a period of profound transformation to demand the growing need for university education within the University of Palermo and carry out their activities illustrious personalities from the academic world, by Giuseppe Piazzi, who in 1801 discovered the first asteroid, the chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro who made significant contributions to the modern atomic system, in Emilio Segre, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.
