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Segrè, Emilio was born on February 1, 1905 in Tivoli, Rome, Italy. Arrived in the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Giuseppe and Amelia (Treves) Segrè.
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Meet a diverse group of highly original thinkers and learn about their lives and achievements: Galileo, a founding father of astronomy and physics; Christiaan Huygens, a seventeenth-century pioneer of wave-particle duality; and Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and physicist who laid the groundwork for a scientific revolution and promoted radical investigation as the means to reveal nature's hidden workings. This chronicle of physics and physicists traces the development of scientific thought from these originators to their successors, among them Faraday, Watts, Helmholtz, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs. Combining his own engaging style with the physicists' original writings, the author illustrates the evolution of individual physical ideas, as well as their roles in the wider field. A student and colleague of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè (190589) made numerous important contributions to nuclear physics, including his participation in the Manhattan Project. A Nobel laureate, Segrè is further renowned for his narrative skills as an historian. Hailed by the Journal of the History of Astronomy as "charming and witty," this book is a companion to the author's From X-Rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries, also available from Dover Publications.
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A leading figure in twentieth-century physics offers impressions and recollections of the field's development. Nobel Laureate Emilio Segrè (190589) knew and worked with many of modern physics' preeminent scientists. In this simple but elegant history, he offers compelling views not only of the milestones of scientific discovery but also the personalities involvedtheir attitudes and politics as well as their trials and triumphs. Highlights include a profile of Albert Einstein, from his unconventional youth to his role as science's elder statesman; the wonder year of 1932, which witnessed the discoveries of the neutron, positron, and deuterium; and the first steps in building particle accelerators. A student and colleague of Enrico Fermi, Segrè made numerous important contributions to nuclear physics, including participation in the Manhattan Project. Segrè is further renowned for his narrative skills as a historian. This book is a companion to the author's From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries, also available from Dover Publications.
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Student, collaborator and lifelong friend of Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè presents a rich, well-rounded portrait of the scientist, his methods, intellectual history, and achievements. Explaining in nontechnical terms the scientific problems Fermi faced or solved, Enrico Fermi, Physicist contains illuminating material concerning Fermi's youth in Italy and the development of his scientific style. Emilio Segre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959.
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The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid portraits of some of this century's most important scientists, such as Enrico Fermi, E. O. Lawrence, and Robert Oppenheimer. Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Segrè showed early signs of scientific geniusat age seven he began a notebook of physics experiments. He became Fermi's first graduate student in 1928 and contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons, and later was appointed director of the physics laboratory at the University of Palermo. While visiting the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley in 1938, he learned that he had been dismissed from his Palermo post by Mussolini's Fascist regime. Lawrence then hired him to work on the cyclotron at Berkeley with Luis Alvarez, Edwin McMillan, and Glenn Seaborg. Segrè was one of the first to join Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, where he became a group leader on the Manhattan Project. His account of that mysterious enclave of scientists, all working feverishly to develop the atomic bomb before the Nazis did, includes his description of the first explosion at Alamogordo. Segrè writes movingly of the personal devastation wrought by the Nazis, his struggles with fellow scientists, and his love of nature. His book offers an intimate glimpse into a bygone era as well as a unique perspective on some of the most important scientific developments of this century.
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Segrè, Emilio was born on February 1, 1905 in Tivoli, Rome, Italy. Arrived in the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Giuseppe and Amelia (Treves) Segrè.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Rome, 1928. DHC(honorary), University Palermo, Italy. DHC(honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota.
DHC(honorary), Tel Aviv University. DHC(honorary), Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. DHC(honorary), University Genova, Italy.
Assistant professor, U. Rome, 1932-1936;
director physics laboratory, U. Palermo, Italy, 1936-1938;
research assistant, University of California-Berkeley, 1938-1943;
professor physics, University of California-Berkeley, 1945-1972;
emeritus, University of California-Berkeley, 1972-1989;
group leader Los Alamos Science Laboratory, University of California-Berkeley, 1943-1946. Honorary professor San Marcos U., Lima. Visiting professor University of Illinois, Purdue University.
Professor physics U. Rome, 1974-1975. Lecturer in field.
Emilio Segrè has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society. Member National Academy Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Heidelberg Akademie Wissenschaften, European Physical Society, Academy Sciences Peru, Society Progress of Science (Uruguay), Società Italiana di fisica, Accad. Naz. Lincei (Italy), Accad.
Naz. Extra Large (Italy), Indian Academy Sciences Bangalore, International Academy History of Sciences, others.
Married Elfriede Spiro, February 2, 1936 (deceased October 1970). Children: Claudio, Amelia, Fausta. Married Rosa Mines, February 12, 1972.
