Enrico Persico

Enrico Persico (August 9, 1900 – June 17, 1969) was an Italian physicist notable for propagating the field of quantum mechanics in Italy.

He was a professor at the University of Turin and is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ugo Fano.

In 1926 he was already teaching physics at the University of Rome, and co-authored with Fermi on the topic of wave mechanics.

In the autumn of the 1949 Persico, discouraged from the oppressive atmosphere of the post-war period, accepted a position in Canada, taking the place of Franco Rasetti.

In the 1953 Persico directed the theoretical work that underpinned the construction of a 1.1 GeV synchrotron.