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Emilio Segrè

1905 - 1989

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Emilio Gino Segrè (Italian: [seˈgrɛ]; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emilio Segrè has received more than 337,331 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Emilio Segrè is the 175th most popular physicist (up from 179th in 2019), the 750th most popular biography from Italy (up from 865th in 2019) and the 6th 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

Among physicists, Emilio Segrè ranks 175 out of 851. Before him are Melvin Schwartz, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Hans Georg Dehmelt, George E. Smith, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow. After him are Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Martin Lewis Perl, Alexander Prokhorov, Satyendra Nath Bose, and James Rainwater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Emilio Segrè ranks 24. Before him are Felix Bloch, Arthur Koestler, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, and Artem Mikoyan. After him are Gerard Kuiper, Władysław Gomułka, Raymond Cattell, Carl Gustav Hempel, Dalton Trumbo, and Ulf von Euler. Among people deceased in 1989, Emilio Segrè ranks 29. Before him are Andrei Gromyko, Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, Silvana Mangano, and Sugar Ray Robinson. After him are George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, Joris Ivens, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Emilio Segrè ranks 750 out of 5,161. Before him are Joachim of Fiore (1135), Pope Felix IV (480), Poliziano (1454), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), and Luca della Robbia (1399). After him are Atia (-85), Vincenzo Galilei (1520), Domenico Modugno (1928), Lino Ventura (1919), Charles Edward Stuart (1720), and Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Emilio Segrè ranks 6. Before him are Alessandro Volta (1745), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), and Laura Bassi (1711). After him are Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Ettore Majorana (1906), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Bruno Pontecorvo (1913).

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