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Archival as AuthorArchival as SubjectPublished as AuthorPublished as SubjectEmilio Segrè
Dates
February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989
Authorized Form of Name
Segrè, Emilio
Additional Forms of Names
Segreh, Emiliyo
Biography
Abstract
Emilio Segre was professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley (1946-1972). Other institutional affiliations include University of Rome, University of Palermo, and Los Alamos Laboratory. His research interests include atomic spectroscopy, moleculear beams, slow neutrons, radiochemistry, isomerism, spontaneous fission, and high-energy physics.
Important Dates
February 1, 1905Birth, Rome (Italy).
1928Obtained PhD, University of Rome, Rome (Italy).
1930 – 1935Assistant Professor of Physics (1930-1932) and Associate Professor of Physics (1932-1935), University of Rome, Rome (Italy).
1935 – 1938Professor and Laboratory Director, University of Palermo.
1938 – 1989Research Associate, Radiation Laboratory (1938-1946); Professor of Physics (1946-1972); Chair, Department of Physics (1965-1966); and Emeritus Professor of Physics (1972-1989), University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1943 – 1946Leader, Radioactivity Group, Manhattan Project, Los Alamos Laboratory.
1951 – 1952Visiting Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1952Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1959Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Owen Chamberlain "for their discovery of the antiproton".
April 22, 1989Death, Lafayette (Calif.).
Occupation
Atomic and nuclear physicist.
Places
Birth
Graduate Education
Employment
Death
Subjects
Relationships
People
Family
Segrè, Amelia Gertrude Allegra, 1937-
Daughter.
Segrè, Claudio, 1937-
Son.
Segrè, Fausta Irene, 1945-
Daughter.
Segrè, Giuseppe
Father.
Spiro, Elfriede
Wife. Married in 1936.
Treves, Amelia
Mother.
Advisors & Collaborators
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley, Manhattan Project; shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discovery of the antiproton;" and both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
PhD advisor at University of Rome and both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley, "Studies in fission in heavy elements under high-energy bombardments" and both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Thompson, Theos Jardin, 1918-1970
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley, "Effect of chemical structure on stopping powers for high-energy protons".
Tobias, Cornelius A.
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley.
Wiegand, Clyde (Clyde Edward), 1915-1996
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley.
Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley, "The Internal and External Continuous X-rays Excited by the Beta-particles of P." and both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Ypsilantis, Thomas
Advised by Segre at University of California, Berkeley, "Experiments on polarization in nucleon-nucleon scattering at 310 Mev."
Colleagues
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Both employed at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Barish, B. C. (Barry Clark), 1936-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Birge, Raymond T. (Raymond Thayer), 1887-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Clauser, John F. (John Francis), 1942-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Falicov, L. M. (Leopoldo Maximo), 1933-1995
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Hahn, E. L. (Erwin Louis), 1921-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Helmholz, August Carl, 1915-2003
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Jackson, John David, 1925-2016
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley and Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1923-2000
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Richards, Paul L. (Paul Linford)
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999
Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Stephens, F. S. (Frank Samuel)
Both employed at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Williams, John H. (John Harry), 1908-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Both employed at University of California, Berkeley.
Additional
Amaldi, Edoardo
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976
Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944
Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-2004
Kempton, Albert Ernest, 1911-2000
Larson, Clarence E. (Clarence Edward), 1909-
Leith, Cecil E., 1923-
Livingood, John J. (John Jacob), 1903-
Majorana, Ettore
McCrea, William Hunter
Medicus, Heinrich, 1918-
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 1907-1993
Rasetti, Franco, 1901-2001
Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-2006
Tamm, I. E. (Igor' Evgen'evich), 1895-1971
Institutions
Major Positions
Research Associate.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Leader, Radioactivity Group, Manhattan Project.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Leader, Radioactivity Group, Los Alamos Laboratory.
Università di Palermo
Professor and Laboratory Director.
Università di Roma
Obtained PhD (1928). Assistant Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Physics.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Department Chair; Professor of Physics; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Physics
Visiting Professor.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Columbia University. Department of Physics
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Member.
Resources
Archival Resources
Author
Clarence E. Larson science and technology oral history collection, 1983-1993.
Special Collections & Archives
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, USA
Emilio Segrè autobiography, undated.
Library.
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Emilio Segrè collection, 1942-1997.
Archives Center.
Smithsonian Institution. National Museum of American History
MRC 601, 12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Emilio Segre lectures and other collected recordings, 1968-1997.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Emilio Segrè papers, circa 1942-1989.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Fermi Memorial Session [sound recording] / American Physical Society spring meeting, 1955 April 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
General interest session on history of physics [sound recording], 1972 April 25.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Joint symposium of the Division of Electron and Atomic Physics and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording] : History of spectroscopy / 1981 January 28.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
LBL Physics Division technical records of Emilio Segrè, 1942-1963.
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Los Alamos report 24: lecture series on nuclear physics, 1943-1944.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Nobel laureates on scientific research project : oral history, 1964.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Notes on physics courses given at Los Alamos, 1943-1946.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Nuclear history [sound recording] : voices of the past; compiled by Glenn Seaborg.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1964 May 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Emilio Gino Segrè, 1967 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Georg von Hevesy, 1962 May 25 and 4 February 1963.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Reminiscences of Emilio Segrè : oral history, 1964.
Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA
Segre and Seaborg present plutonium sample to the Smithsonian Institution in recognition of the 25th anniversary of plutonium [sound recording] / 1967 March.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Stanislaw Ulam papers, 1916-1984.
Library.
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission lecture series on nuclear physics, 1943.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Subject
Albert Kempton papers and correspondence, circa 1930-2000.
Library. Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Cambridge University
West Road, Cambridge, CH3 9DR
Archivio Gentile papers, circa 1925-1943.
Dipartimento di Fisica
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Rome, Italy
Atomic year 25 [sound recording] : the story of CP-1 / produced by the Atomic Energy Commission's Argonne National Laboratory.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Enrico Fermi correspondence, 1917-1958.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Enrico Fermi letters to Enrico Perisco, 1918-1926.
Library.
American Philosophical Society
105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA
Enrico Fermi papers, 1918-1974.
The Joseph Regenstein Library. Department of Special Collections
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Glenn T. Seaborg papers 1866-1999 (bulk 1940-1998).
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA
History of atomic energy collection, 1896-1991.
Libraries. Special Collections
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Hugh T. Richards response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1990.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Igor E. Tamm papers, 1921-1971.
contact Tamm family
In private hands
Moscow
International congress for nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and cosmic radiation [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Jesse W. M. DuMond papers, 1912-1976.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Keith Brueckner manuscript biography, 1986.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1907-1991.
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Letter to Emilio Segrè, 1933.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with August Carl Helmholz, 1975, 1989-1990.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Cecil E. "Chuck" Leith, 1997 July 2.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Clyde Edward Wiegand, 1977 September 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Edoardo Amaldi, 1969 April 9 and 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Franco Rasetti and Enrico Persico, 1963 April 8.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Giuseppe Occhialini, 1971 April 5, 6, May 16, 17, and November 18.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Hans Bethe, 1982, 1993.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Herbert F. York, 1975 September 9 and 1976 May 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with John J. Livingood, 1977 May 16. Big machine physics at Berkeley, Harvard and Argonne: oral history transcript / John J. Livingood; tape recorded interview conducted by Arthur Norberg on May 16, 1977. History of Science and Technology Program, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1982.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Luis Alvarez, 1967 February 14 and 15.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1976 February 11.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Owen Chamberlain, 1976.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with William W. Havens, 1991 February 21, July 17, 29, Augut 5, 12 and 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history joint interview with James Franck and Hertha Sponer-Franck, 1962 July 9 to 14.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Outtakes and candid footage from the production of : The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Owen Chamberlain papers, 1941-2006.
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA
Pieter Zeeman papers, 1877-1946.
Rijksarchief in Noord-Holland
Kleine Houtweg 18, Haarlem, Netherlands
Rochester Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics proceedings, 1952 and 1955.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Selected correspondence and related materials from the Wick archives, 1933-1945.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Text materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
The Italian navigator has landed...a half century of nuclear energy [videorecording] / Argonne National Laboratory, producer ; U. S. Dept. of Energy ; Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute ; Power Reactor and Nuclear Development Corporation-Japan, sponsors ; Peter Graves, narrator, 1992.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission records (Record Group 326), 1923-1975.
Office of the National Archives
National Archives and Records Administration
8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408, USA
Published Resources
Author
A mind always in motion : the autobiography of Emilio Segrè / Emilio Segrè.
Autobiografia di un fisico / Emilio Segrè.
Experimental nuclear physics / E. Segrè, editor.
From falling bodies to radio waves : classical physicists and their discoveries / Emilio Segrè.
From x-rays to quarks : modern physicists and their discoveries / Emilio Segrè.
Nuclei and particles : an introduction to nuclear and subnuclear physics / Emilio Segrè.
Personaggi e scoperte nella fisica contemporanea / di Emilio Segrè.
Subject
"Emilio Gino Segrè: 1905-1989", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Atoms, bombs, & eskimo kisses : a memoir of father and son / Claudio Segrè.