| Emilio Segrè  AKA Emilio Gino Segrè
Born: 1-Feb-1905
Birthplace: Tivoli, Italy
Died: 22-Apr-1989
Location of death: Lafayette, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of the antiproton Military service: Italian Army (1928-29) Father: Giuseppe Segrè (industrialist)
Mother: Amelia Treves
Wife: Elfriede Spiro (one son, two daughters)
Son: Claudio
Daughter: Amelia
Daughter: Fausta
University: PhD, University of Rome (1922-28)
Professor: University of Rome (1932-36)
Professor: University of Palermo (1936-)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1946-72)
Professor: Nuclear Physics, University of Rome (1974-)
Manhattan Project 1943-46
Nobel Prize for Physics 1959 (with Owen Chamberlain)
Fulbright 1951
Guggenheim Fellowship 1953
National Academy of Sciences
American Physical Society
Accademia dei Lincei
Naturalized US Citizen 1944
Author of books:
Experimental Nuclear Physics (1953)
Nuclei and Particles (1964)
Enrico Fermi: Physicist (1970, biography)
From X-rays to Quarks: Modern Physicists and Their Discoveries (1980)
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (1984)
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