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Emilio Segrè

1905 - 1989

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Emilio Gino Segrè ( sə-GRAY; Italian: [eˈmiːljo ˈdʒiːno seˈgrɛ]; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist 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. Born in Tivoli, near Rome, Segrè studied engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza before taking up physics in 1927. Segrè was appointed assistant professor of physics at the University of Rome in 1932 and worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys. From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Palermo. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emilio Segrè is the 136th most popular physicist (up from 175th in 2019), the 540th most popular biography from Italy (up from 750th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Physicist.

Emilio Segrè was an Italian-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 for his discovery of the antiproton.

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Among physicists, Emilio Segrè ranks 136 out of 851. Before him are Simon van der Meer, James Rainwater, Carl Zeiss, Hans Bethe, James Franck, and Robert Coleman Richardson. After him are Emil Lenz, George Gamow, C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron.

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Among people born in 1905, Emilio Segrè ranks 17. Before him are Henry Fonda, Greta Garbo, Carl David Anderson, Fred Trump, Faustina Kowalska, and Mikhail Sholokhov. After him are Astrid of Sweden, Felix Bloch, Marcel Lefebvre, Vasily Grossman, Arthur Koestler, and Raymond Aron. Among people deceased in 1989, Emilio Segrè ranks 21. Before him are Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Elena Ceaușescu, János Kádár, Andrei Gromyko, Lee Van Cleef, and Bette Davis. After him are Laurence Olivier, Osamu Tezuka, Dolores Ibárruri, Silvana Mangano, Vladimir Horowitz, and Hu Yaobang.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Emilio Segrè ranks 540 out of 5,161. Before him are Peter Damian (1007), Trebonianus Gallus (206), Januarius (272), Gaius Gracchus (-154), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), and Salvatore Riina (1930). After him are Pope Agapetus II (900), Theocritus (-315), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Giovanni Falcone (1939), Anna Magnani (1908), and Domenico Cimarosa (1749).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Emilio Segrè ranks 5. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), and Luigi Galvani (1737). After him are Laura Bassi (1711), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Ettore Majorana (1906), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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