Italian Dynamism

Italy will have a new generation of industrialists.

amazing italian people in the years

italy has plenty of astonishingly talented people, here you will find a curated list of some of the best.

tech

Augusto Marietti Co-Founder of Kong [1988]
Marco Palladino Co-Founder of Kong [1988]
Luca Ferrari Founder and CEO of Bending Spoons [1985]
Salvatore Sanfilippo Inventor of Redis [1977]
Riccardo Zacconi Founder King.com (Candy Crush) [1967]
Giacomo Marini Founder of Logitech [1951]
Pierluigi Zappacosta Founder of Logitech [1950]
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Pioneer of electronic design automation and co-founder of Cadence Design Systems [1944]
Federico Faggin Inventor of the Microchip and the Touchscreen [1941]
Adriano Olivetti Inventor of the personal computer [1901]
Alessandro Volta Inventor of the battery [1745]

science

Massimo Banzi Creator of Arduino [1968]
Carlo Rovelli Theorist of the loop quantum gravity [1956]
Giorgio Parisi Father of the modern field of chaos theory [1948]
Carlo Rubbia Discoverer of W and Z particles, Nobel laureate [1934]
Margherita Hack Astrophysicist and science communicator [1922]
Rita Levi-Montalcini Neurologist, Nobel laureate, and co-discoverer of nerve growth factor [1909]
Emilio Segrè Discoverer of the antiproton, Nobel laureate [1905]
Giulio Natta Inventor of polypropilene (plastic) production, Nobel laureate [1903]
Enrico Fermi Creator of the first nuclear reactor, Nobel laureate [1901]
Guglielmo Marconi Inventor of the radio, Nobel laurate [1874]
Antonio Pacinotti Inventor of the dynamo and the AC motor [1841]
Eugenio Bersanti Inventor of the internal combustion engine [1821]
Antonio Meucci Inventor of the telephone [1808]
Felice Matteucci Inventor of the internal combustion engine [1808]
Evangelista Torricelli Inventor of the barometer [1608]

economics / finance

Mario Draghi Inventor of Quantitative Easing method [1947]
Franco Modigliani Considered the inventor of the rational expectations hypothesis, Nobel Memorial Prize [1918]
Amadeo Giannini Founder of Bank of Italy (now Bank of America) [1870]

education / information

Nicolò Govoni Opening free IB schools across the world. [1993]
Maria Montessori Inventor of the Montessori educational method. [1870]
Francesco Rampazetto Inventor of the TypeWriter [1510]

art / design

JAGO (Jacopo Cardillo) Sculptor, known as "the modern Michelangelo" [1987]
Renzo Piano Architect and Pritzker Prize winner [1937]

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