Codice albumGBB-F-004645

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004645-0000

1959, december, USA : The italian born physicist Professor EMILIO Gino SEGRE (Segrè 1905 - 1989), who share with Professor OWEN CHAMBERLAIN the Nobel Prize for the PHYSICS the day 22 october 1959 in Stockholm, SWEDEN, from the hands of King Gustav of Sweden. Emilio Gino Segrè was born into a Sephardic Jewish family in Tivoli, near Rome, 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 (with Oscar D'Agostino, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Enrico Fermi). In 1938, Benito Mussolini's fascist government passed anti-Semitic laws barring Jews from university positions. As a Jew, Segrè was now rendered an indefinite émigré. At the Berkeley Radiation Lab, Lawrence offered him a job as a Research Assistant. While at Berkeley, Segrè helped discover the element astatine and the isotope plutonium-239, which was later used to make the Fat man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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