Enrico Persico

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

Life

Persico studied at the University La Sapienza in Rome, where he had made ​​the acquaintance of a student of Enrico Fermi. In 1921 he obtained his degree ( Laurea ). In 1926 he became a lecturer at the University of Rome and in the same year, a first release with Fermi ( in the end. Lincei, vol 4, p 452) about the new quantum mechanical wave mechanics of Erwin Schrödinger. He reached the first Italian national competition for a chair of theoretical physics by Fermi in second place and then taught quantum mechanics in Florence and at the end of 1930 in Turin ( on the initiative of Francesco Tricomi ). From there, he maintained contact to the then very active group of Fermi in Rome, who occupied a leading international role in nuclear physics. In 1936, his textbook on quantum mechanics. After he taught from 1947 to 1950 in Canada (as successor of Franco Rasetti as director of the Institute of Physics in Laval (Quebec ) ), he took in 1950 to a call to Rome. He worked on Optoelectronics and particle accelerators. 1953 to 1957 he headed the theoretical division at the National Physics Laboratory in Frascati and was involved in the development of the theoretical foundations for a 1.1 GeV synchrotron. Then he was again professor in Rome.

Writings

• 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 atomised e la loro energia. Bologna 1959.
• Principles of Particle Accelerators. Benjamin Books, New York, 1968 ( together with Ezio Ferrari and Sergio Segre ).