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Emilio G. Segrè

Emilio Gino Segrè 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.

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science · Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist (1905–1989) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · writer · also Emilio G. Segrè, Emilio Segrè, Emilio Gino Segrè, Emilio G. Segre, Emilio Gino Segre, Emilio Segre

Born 1 February 1905 · Died 22 April 1989 · Q173028

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Dec 1959Title
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the antiproton.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1959).
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2020· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2020Documented record79% confidence

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Published “The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues” in Science — cited 5,388 times.

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2015· 1 entry

Jan 1, 2015Documented record79% confidence

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Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans” in Science — cited 4,858 times.

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1989· 1 entry

Apr 22, 1989Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1989-04-22.

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1974· 1 entry

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Returned to the University of Rome as a professor, but served only a year before reaching the mandatory retirement age

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1959· 2 entries

Dec 10, 1959Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of the antiproton.

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Jun 15, 1959Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1959).

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1958· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1958Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1958).

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1957· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1957Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1957).

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1953· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1953Documented record84% confidence

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Won August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal (1953).

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1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Awarding them US$400,000 (equivalent to $4,800,000 in 2025) for the patents related to generating neutrons, which worked out to about $20,000 after legal costs

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1947· 1 entry

1947Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Named it technetium, as it was the first artificially synthesized chemical element

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1946· 1 entry

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Became a professor of physics and of history of science, serving until 1972

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1944· 1 entry

1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Became a naturalized citizen of the United States

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1938· 1 entry

1938Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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And while Segrè was visiting the Berkeley Radiation laboratory, Benito Mussolini's fascist government passed antisemitic laws barring Jews from university positions

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1937· 2 entries

1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Amelia Gertrude Allegra, born in 1942, and Fausta Irene, born in 1945

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1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Which was emitting anomalous forms of radioactivity

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Met Elfriede Spiro, a Jewish woman whose family had come from Ostrowo in West Prussia, but had fled to Breslau when that part of Prussia became part of Poland after World War I

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Had emigrated to Italy, where she worked as a secretary and an interpreter

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1932· 1 entry

1932Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And worked there until 1936, becoming one of the Via Panisperna boys

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1930· 1 entry

1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Segrè began studying the Zeeman effect in certain alkaline metals

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1928· 1 entry

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And another article with him the following year on the Raman effect

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1927· 1 entry

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Segrè met Franco Rasetti, who introduced him to Enrico Fermi

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1905· 1 entry

Feb 1, 1905Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1905-02-01.

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