Enrico Persico

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Enrico Persico (born August 9, 1900 in Rome , † June 17, 1969 ibid) was an Italian theoretical physicist who, alongside Enrico Fermi, contributed a lot to the early spread of quantum mechanics in Italy.

Life

Persico studied at La Sapienza University in Rome, where he met Enrico Fermi as a student. In 1921 he obtained his diploma (Laurea). In 1926 he became a lecturer at the University of Rome and in the same year there was a first publication with Fermi (in the Rend. Lincei, volume 4, p. 452) on the new quantum-theoretical wave mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger . He achieved second place in the first national Italian competition for a chair in theoretical physics after Fermi and then taught quantum mechanics in Florence and from the end of 1930 in Turin (on the initiative of Francesco Tricomi ). From there he kept in touch with the then very active group of Fermi in Rome, which played an internationally leading role in nuclear physics. In 1936 his textbook on quantum mechanics was published. After teaching in Canada from 1947 to 1950 (as the successor to Franco Rasetti as director of the Institute of Physics in Laval (Québec) ), he accepted a position in Rome in 1950. He dealt with optoelectronics and particle accelerators. From 1953 to 1957 he headed the theoretical department at the national physics laboratory in Frascati and was involved in the development of the theoretical basis for a 1.1 GeV synchrotron . Then he was again a professor in Rome.

Fonts

  • Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics . Prentice Hall, New York 1950.
  • Fondamenti della meccanica atomica . Zanichelli, Bologna 1936.
  • L'ottica . 1932 (optics).
  • Introduzione alla fisica matematica . 2nd Edition. Bologna 1943.
  • Gli atomi e la loro energia . Bologna 1959.
  • Principles of Particle Accelerators . Benjamin Books, New York 1968 (with Ezio Ferrari and Sergio Segre ).

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SURNAME Persico, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theoretical physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1969
Place of death Rome