A son of the famous mathematician
Vito Volterra, Enrico Volterra received in 1928 his degree in civil engineering from the
Sapienza University of Rome and, in the same year, his professional qualification (
abilitazione) in bridges and roads from the Polytechnic School of Engineering in Naples. He became in Rome an academic assistant to the Chair of Marine Construction and then in Paris a researcher in photoelastic methods at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chausées, before returning in Rome to start work as a civil engineer. In 1932 he was an Invited Speaker at the
ICM in Zürich. In 1948 he joined the faculty of the
Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, then the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and in 1957 the
University of Texas at Austin. He married and was the father of two daughters. ==Selected publications==