Segrè

American  

[suh-gray, se-gre] / səˈgreɪ, sɛˈgrɛ /

noun

1. Emilio 1905–1989, U.S. physicist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize 1959.

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Segrè British  

/ səˈɡreɪ /

noun

1. Emilio (ɛmˈiːlɪəʊ). 1905–89, US physicist, born in Italy, who was the first to produce an artificial element. He shared the Nobel prize for physics (1959) with Owen Chamberlain for their discovery (1955) of the antiproton

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Segrè

But after his friend Emilio Segrè dragged him into Enrico Fermi’s elite Roman physics club in the late 1920s, Majorana’s stature in atomic physics quickly grew.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 20, 2023

“Scorpions and gila monsters abounded,” recalled physicist Emilio Segrè.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2020

“That’s a lot of wasted orange juice,” said Andrea Segrè, a professor at the University of Bologna and a campaigner against food waste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2016

This meant that, in the case of element 43, the Noddacks’ claim for masurium should be dismissed and should be replaced by technetium, as synthesized by Segrè and Perrier.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 5, 2013

Physicist Emilio Segrè, a 1959 Nobelman for his explorations into the Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass world of antimatter, is a master of pure theory.

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