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  Emilio Gino Segre - Biography & Achievements
Emilio Gino Segre was an Italian American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Emilio Gino Segre was born in Tivoli, Rome on February 1, 1905.
Emilio Segre was married to Elfriede Spiro in 1936.
www.ultimateitaly.com /peoples/emilio-gino-segre.html   (1472 words)

  
 Emilio Segré - Best of Sicily Magazine
While the Segrés were accepted by Palermo society, it was the era of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, and also a period of increasing antipathy toward the country's non-conformist population, which included Jews, various intellectuals, certain writers and artists, and even a musician or two (Arturo Toscanini comes to mind).
As part of this expansion, Segré's contemporary (and a former student of Fermi), the eccentric, Catanian-born Ettore Majorana, then a professor at the University of Naples, was appointed to a physics post at the University of Palermo, but died of an apparent suicide before actually assuming it.
Emilio Segré had first visited the United States in 1933, when he assisted Enrico Fermi in a summer course in theoretical physics at the University of Michigan.
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 Pioneers: Emilio Segre
Segre initially began studies in engineering at the University of Rome in 1922 but later studied under Enrico Fermi and received his doctorate in physics in 1928.
In 1932 Segre was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome, and two years later he participated in neutron experiments directed by Fermi, in which many elements, including uranium, were bombarded with neutrons, and elements heavier than uranium were created.
From 1943 to 1946 Segre was a group leader at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1944 and was professor of physics at Berkeley (1946-72).
www.radiochemistry.org /nuclearmedicine/pioneers/segre_e.shtml   (378 words)

  
 Emilio Segrè
Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome in 1932 and served until 1936.
After careful chemical and theoretical analysis, Segrè was able to prove that some of the radiation was being produced by a previously unknown element, dubbed technetium, and was the first artificially synthesized chemical element which does not occur in nature.
While Segrè on what was to be a summer visit to California in 1938, Mussolini's Fascist government passed anti-Semitic laws barring Jews from university positions.
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 Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Physicist of both Italian and American nationalities, winner of Physics Nobel Prize of 1959, together with Owen Chamberlain, for proving the existence of the antiproton, Segrè was born in Tivoli, a town near Rome, in February 1st 1905, and died in Lafayette, California, in April 22nd 1989.
Segrè entered the University of Rome in 1922 as engineering student, and than changed to Physics, being Enrico Fermi's first Ph.D. student.
Segrè and Chamberlain proved the existence of the antiproton, in 1955, while trying to create antiprotons (protons with negative charge instead of the normal positive charge) in a powerful particle accelerator.
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 Segrè, Emilio (Gino)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Segrè initially began studies in engineering at the University of Rome in 1922 but later studied under Enrico Fermi and received his doctorate in physics in 1928.
In 1932 Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome, and two years later he participated in neutron experiments directed by Fermi, in which many elements, including uranium, were bombarded with neutrons, and elements heavier than uranium were created.
While visiting California in 1938, Segrè was dismissed from the University of Palermo by the Fascist government, so he remained in the United States as a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley.
www.phy.bg.ac.yu /web_projects/giants/segre.htm   (379 words)

  
 Emilio Gino Segrè - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Emilio Gino Segrè (1 de febrero de 1905 – 22 de abril de 1989) fue un físico italo-americano que, juntamente con Owen Chamberlain, ganó en el 1959 el Premio Nobel de Física, por el descubrimiento del antiprotón.
Segrè fue profesor de física de la Universidad de Roma de 1932 hasta 1936.
Segrè, además, fue bastante activo como fotógrafo, tomando fotos para documentar eventos y personas de la historia de la ciencia moderna.
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 Segre, Emilio Gino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Segre začal v roce 1922 studovat inženýrství na universitě v Římě, pak studoval pod vedením Enrica Fermiho a doktorát z fyziky získal v roce 1928.
Segre odcestoval z Říma v roce 1936 a stal se ředitelem fyzikální laboratoře v Palermu.
Když byl v roce 1955 dostaven nový bevatron (urychlovač částic), Segre a Chamberlain vyprodukovali první antiprotony a tím odstartovali pátrání po dalších antičásticích.
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 Emilio G. Segrè - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their discovery of the antiproton."
He was born in Tivoli, Italy and enrolled in the University of Rome La Sapienza as an engineering student.
After a visit to Ernest O. Lawrence's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, he was sent a molybdenum strip from the laboratory's cyclotron deflector in 1937 which was emitting anomalous forms of radioactivity.
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 Emilio Segrè - Biography
Emilio Segrè was born in Tivoli, Rome, on February 1st, 1905, as the son of Giuseppe Segrè, industrialist, and Amelia Treves.
In 1938 Professor Segrè came to Berkeley, California, first as a research associate in the Radiation Laboratory and later as a lecturer in the Physics Department.
Professor Segrè has taught in temporary appointments at Columbia University, New York, at the University of Illinois, at the University of Rio de Janeiro and in several other institutions.
nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1959/segre-bio.html   (583 words)

  
 Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: Segrè Mini-Exhibit
Segrè first visited the United States in 1933 when he joined Enrico Fermi in teaching at a summer school for theoretical physics at the University of Michigan.
The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives is part of the Niels Bohr Library of the Center for History of Physics at the
Any public use requires written permission from the AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives or the appropriate copyright holder.
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 Emilio Gino Segre Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics
Emilio Gino Segre Winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics
Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-born American physicist (submitted by Hendry Izaac Elim)
Emilio Segre Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
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 TIME.com: THE MEN ON THE COVER -- Jan. 2, 1961 -- Page 3
Along with his partners, Shockley won a Nobel Prize for turning hunks of germanium into the first transistors, the educated little crystals that are fast replacing vacuum tubes in the country's booming electronics industry.
Emilio Gino Segrè, 55, was a promising young Italian engineering student when he was invited to become the late great Physicist Enrico Fermi's first graduate student.
Fermi and Segrè collaborated with three other Italian scientists in perfecting the slow neutron process that was essential to the production of the atomic bomb.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,895240-3,00.html   (731 words)

  
 Biographical Notes
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951AD, which he shared with E W McMillan for the discovery of these elements.
An Italian nuclear physicist, Emilio Gino Segre (1930-) discovered the element Astatine.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959AD, which he shared with O Chamberlain for the discovery of the Anti-Proton.
www.ucc.ie /academic/chem/dolchem/html/biog/biog003.html   (996 words)

  
 Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Trips, Fly Fishing Gear and Daily News - MidCurrent
Emilio Gino Segrè, who shared the Nobel Prize in 1959 with Owen Chamberlain for the discovery of the antiproton, was also with the Manhattan Project team in Los Alamos in 1944.
Fermi asked him what was so satisfying about fishing that it took precedence over the extremely important problems they must solve at the lab.
Segre replied with a detailed explanation of the technology required for fly fishing in order to outsmart the fish.
www.midcurrent.com /news/2005/07/the_manhattan_project_and_the.html   (246 words)

  
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During and after the second world war he contributed in Las Alamos with the American soldiers to the making of the atomic bomb and developed an original series of researches of particles.
Then Segrè was asked by many scientists but refused to take part to the construction of the hydrogen bomb.
He also dissociated from the Mac Carthyist climate that embittered the United States at the beginning of the fifties.
www.provincia.imperia.it /villanobel/VersioneInglese/Segre.htm   (272 words)

  
 Chemistry : Periodic Table : technetium : historical information
Technetium was erroneously reported as having been discovered in 1925, at which time it was named masurium.
The element was actually discovered by C. Perrier and Emilio Gino Segre in Italy in 1937.
It was found in a sample of molybdenum bombarded by deuterons.
www.webelements.com /webelements/elements/text/Tc/hist.html   (201 words)

  
 Nobel Prize in Physics 1959
Emilio Serge Visual Archives: American Institute of Physics
Emilio Segre' Leads the Research on Spontaneous Fission: Los Alamos National Laboratory
The institution(s) with which the Laureate was officially associated when s/he did the Nobel award work.
www.slac.stanford.edu /library/nobel/nobel1959.html   (108 words)

  
 February 1 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born 1 Feb 1905; died 22 Apr 1989.
Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-born American physicist who was cowinner, with Owen Chamberlain of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 for the discovery of the antiproton, an antiparticle having the same mass as a proton but opposite in electrical charge.
He also created atoms of the man-made new element technetium (1937) and astatine (1940).
www.todayinsci.com /2/2_01.htm   (2386 words)

  
 Posters Prints - Emilio Gino Segre American Scientist Born in Italy Art Photographic Print - Artist: - Poster Size: ...
Posters Prints - Emilio Gino Segre American Scientist Born in Italy Art Photographic Print - Artist: - Poster Size: 30x40 - SHOP.COM
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 ONLIPIX - Great names pictures : SEG
Group photo 1 (with mother Elfriede, father Emilio SEGRE and brother Claudio)
Group photo 1 (with mother Elfriede, father Emilio SEGRE and sister Amelia)
Group photo 1 (with husband Emilio SEGRE)/2 (with husband Emilio SEGRE, son fils Claudio and daughter Amelia)/3 (with Hans Albrecht BETHE, Enrico FERMI, Emilio SEGRE, Hans Heinrich STAUB, Victor Frederick WEISSKOPF and Erika STAUB)/4 (with Robert Fox BACHER, Hans Albrecht BETHE, Enrico FERMI and Victor Frederick WEISSKOPF)
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 Emilio Gino Segre Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Emilio Gino Segre Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Your search: Books » Author: Emilio Gino Segre
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 Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Names: Bacher, Robert Fox; Bethe, Hans Albrecht; Fermi, Enrico; Segre, Emilio Gino; Weisskopf, Victor Frederick
Catalog #: Chamberlain Owen C2 Names: Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio Gino; Wiegand, Clyde Edward
Catalog #: Chamberlain Owen D3 Names: Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio Gino
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 EMILIO GINO SEGRE - PAMPHLET SIGNED 02/14/1972
The second and third pages inside reproduce the treaty complete with facsimile signatures of the American, British and Soviet signers.
Emilio Segré (1905-1989) shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Owen Chamberlain "for their discovery of the antiproton".
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