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Gino Fano
(* January 1871 in Mantua, Italy, † November 8th 1952 in Verona, Italy)
Life
Fano became Castelnuovo's assistant in Rome in 1894, a position he held for four years. Following this assistantship, Fano went to Messina in the extreme northeastern Sicily where he worked from 1899 to 1901. He had left that city well before an earthquake struck Messina on 28 December 1908, almost totally destroying the city and killing 78000. By this time Fano was far away in Turin where he had been appointed as professor at the University in 1901. In 1911 Fano married Rosetta Cassin and their two children, both of the sons, became professors in the United States.
He taught at Turin from 1901 until 1938 when he was deprived of his chair by the Fascist Regime. After this Fano went to Switzerland where he taught Italian students at an international camp near Lausanne. After the end of World War II Fano, who was seventy-four years old by this time, continued to travel and lecture on mathematics. In particular he visited the United States where he lectured and he also lectured in his native Italy during the remaining six years of his life.