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Emilio Gino Segrè (Italian:; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) [1] was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Emilio Gino Segrè (ur. 1 lutego 1905 w Tivoli, Włochy, zm. 22 kwietnia 1989 w Lafayette, Kalifornia, USA) – amerykański fizyk jądrowy, z pochodzenia włoski Żyd, który w roku 1937 otrzymał, wspólnie z Carlo Perrierem (1886–1948), pierwszy pierwiastek sztuczny – technet (Tc).
This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above. Emilio Segrè died on April 22, 1989. Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1959. To cite this section
He died suddenly in California on April 22, 1989. His youth, spent growing up in a well-to-do Jewish family in Tivoli, was apparently a happy time. After high school he entered the University of Rome, initially majoring in engineering but later in physics.
Emilio Segrè was an Italian-born American physicist who was co-winner, 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.
Died: 22 April 1989, Lafayette, CA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the antiproton”
Emilio Segrè was born in Tivoli, Rome, on February 1st, 1905, as the son of Giuseppe Segrè, industrialist, and Amelia Treves. He went to school in Tivoli and Rome, and entered the University of Rome as a student of engineering in 1922.
