Pontifical Academy of Sciences (Rome)

Vatican City / Rome
 university, science, catholicism, academic institution
Academy of Sciences.
"The aim of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical and natural sciences and the study of epistemological problems related thereto". (from art. 2 of the Statutes of Academy).~
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences seeks to pay honour to pure science, wherever it is found, to assure its freedom and to promote its research. The Academy was founded in Rome in 1603 by Federico Cesi, Jan Heck, Francesco Stelluti and Anastasio De Filiis. It was originally called the Academy of the Lincei, then the Pontifical Academy of the New Lincei. On October 28th 1936, Pope Pius XI granted it new Statutes and the name it has today. The latest Statute was approved by Pope Paul VI on April 1st 1976. The academic body comprises 80 Academicians chosen from among the world’s most famous scientists( of course NOT all Catholics). The Pope appoints the members of the Academy, including the perdurante munere and Honorary Academicians who are so named because of the services they have rendered to the Academy.
The current president is the physicist Nicola Cabibbo,(Italian physicist, best known for work on the weak nuclear interaction. He was also the president of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics from 1983 to 1992.)
It is the only Academy of Sciences in the world that operates beyond national boundaries. It is located in the Casina of Pius IV in the Vatican Gardens.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Academy_of_Sciences
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Coordinates:   41°54'15"N   12°27'9"E

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  • Academy of sciences in Vatican city? this has got to be some kind of joke? Are you kidding me? what do they teach there like the anti-evolution theory or something? hahaha