Родители получил Нобелевскую премию 1959г. в области физи SEGRE, EMILIO G., physicist; b. Tivoli, Italy, Feb. 1, 1905; d. Lafayette, Calif, Apr. 22, 1989; in U.S. since 1938. Educ: U. Rome (PhD). Asst. prof, U. Rome, 1932-36 (working with Enrico Fermi on neutron physics); prof, and dir., physics lab., U. Palermo, 1936-38; research asst., U. Calif.-Berkeley, 1938-43; group leader, Los Alamos (N.M.) Scientific Lab., 1943- 46, where he conducted experiments in spontaneous fission; prof., Berkeley, 1945— 72; emer., 1972 on; prof., U. Rome, 1974- 75. Fellow: Amer. Physical Soc; mem.: Natl. Acad. of Sciences, Araer. Philos. Soc, Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences; mem., advisory bd., Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv U. Author: Experimental Nuclear Physics (1953); Nuclei and Particles (1964); Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1970); From X-Rays to Quarks (1980); From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (1988). Recipient: Co-winner, Nobel Prize in physics (1959), for discovery of antiproton; hon. doctorates: U. Palermo, Tel Aviv U., and others; Hoffmann Medal, German Chem. Soc; Great Cross of Merit, Republic of Italy; Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Fulbright fellowships, and many other honors.
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