Segrè

American  

[suh-grey, 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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Physicists had learned that every fundamental particle seems to have an antimatter counterpart, an idea Segrè would later earn a Nobel Prize for verifying.

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

It is also an element for which the majority of sources give an incorrect account in declaring Corson, MacKenzie, and Segrè as the true discoverers.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 5, 2013

Emilio Gino Segrè, 55, was a promising young Italian engineering student when he was invited to become the late great Physicist Enrico Fermi's first graduate student.

From Time Magazine Archive