Segr,̈ Emilio
Emilio Segr ̈correspondence with Cornelis Bakker, 1931-1946.
Contains 78 mostly typescript letters of correspondence between two prominent physicists, Emilio Segr ̈and Cornelis Bakker, covering the time period from August 4, 1931 to July 15, 1946. Sixty-three of the letters are from Segr ̈to Bakker and are signed. Fourteen of the letters are unsigned carbon copy replies to Segr ̈from Bakker. The letters span a large part of Segr'̈s career from his first teaching post in Italy at the Istituto di Roma to his time at Los Alamos working on the atomic bomb to his later work at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The letters contain references to many prominent physicists and their work as well as occasional pen-and-ink added notes including formulas and equations. Much of the correspondence deals with potential collaboration and discussions with Bakker on subjects of mutual interest. Physicists and scientists mentioned in the letters include Enrico Fermi, Pieter Zeeman, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti, Samuel Goudsmit, Orso Corbino, Oscar D'Agostino, and Ernest O. Lawrence, several of whom later came to be known colloquially as the "Via Panisperna Boys."
Emilio Gino Segr ̈(1905-1989), Italian physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. University of Rome, Ph.D. (physics), 1928, studying under Enrico Fermi. Assistant professor of physics, University of Rome (1932-1936); director of the Physics Laboratory, University of Palermo (1936-1938); research assistant, Berkeley Radiation Lab and lecturer in the physics department, University of California, Berkeley; Los Alamos National Laboratory, group leader for the Manhattan Project (1943-1946); professor of physics and history of science, University of California, Berkeley (1946-1972); University of Rome, professor of nuclear physics (1974- ).
Amaldi, Edoardo
Bakker, C. J.
Corbino, O. M. (Orso Mario) 1876-
Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Majorana, Ettore
Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001
Segr,̈ Emilio
Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Universit ̉degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Atomic bomb
Cyclotrons
Jewish scientists
Nuclear physics
Physicists -- Italy.
Physicists -- Netherlands.
Correspondence. aat
Bakker, C. J.
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University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA