Ugo Fano
| Ugo Fano | |
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Ugo Fano (1912–2001). Photo taken in 1978.
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| Born |
July 28, 1912 Turin, Italy |
| Died | February 13, 2001 (aged 88) Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Physicist and Biophysicist |
| Institutions |
University of Chicago Carnegie Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology University of Rome University of Leipzig |
| Alma mater | University of Turin |
| Doctoral advisor | Enrico Persico |
| Other academic advisors |
Enrico Fermi Werner Heisenberg |
| Doctoral students |
Chris H. Greene |
| Known for |
Lu–Fano plot Feshbach–Fano partitioning Fano resonance Fano factor Fano effect Fano–Lichten mechanism Beutler-Fano profile Fano noise |
| Influences |
Giulio Racah Emilio G. Segrè Salvatore Luria |
| Notable awards | Enrico Fermi Award (1995) Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Notes | |
Chris H. Greene
Thomas M. Baer
John Bohn
Michael Cavagnero
Charles W. Clark
Joseph L. Dehmer
Dan Dill [1]
Gerald Gabrielse
David A. Harmin
Peter Knipp
Chun-Woo Lee
Jia-Ming Li (a.k.a. Chia-Ming Lee)
Chii-Dong Lin
Kwang-Tzu Lu
Patrick O'Mahony
Xiao Chuan Pan
A. Ravi P. Rau
Francis Robicheaux
Emil Sidky
Anthony F. Starace
Giancarlo Strinati
Constantine Theodosiou
Ugo Fano ForMemRS (July 28, 1912 – February 13, 2001) was an Italian American physicist, notable for contributions to theoretical physics.
Ugo Fano was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Turin, Italy. His father was Gino Fano, a professor of mathematics.
Fano earned his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Turin in 1934, under Enrico Persico, with a thesis entitled Sul Calcolo dei Termini Spettrali e in Particolare dei Potenziali di Ionizzazione Nella Meccanica Quantistica (On the Quantum Mechanical Calculation Spectral Terms and their Extension to Ionization). As part of his PhD examination he also made two oral presentations entitled: Sulle Funzioni di Due o Più Variabili Complesse (On the functions of two or more complex variables) and Le Onde Elettromagnetiche di Maggi: Le Connessioni Asimmetriche Nella Geometria Non Riemanniana (Maggi electromagnetic waves: asymmetric connections in non-Riemannian geometry).
Fano worked with Enrico Fermi in Rome, where he was a senior member of 'Via Panisperna boys'. It was during this period that with the urging of Fermi, Fano developed his seminal theory of resonant configuration interaction (Fano resonance profile), which led to two papers. The latter is one of the most cited articles published in the Physical Review.
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