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| | Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | 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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