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
Segrè in 1959
The Via Panisperna boys in the courtyard of Rome University's Physics Institute in Via Panisperna. Left to right: Oscar D'Agostino, Segrè, Edoardo Amaldi, Franco Rasetti and Enrico Fermi.
Via Panisperna boys is the name given to a group of young Italian scientists led by Enrico Fermi, who worked at the Royal Physics Institute of the University of Rome La Sapienza and made the famous di
Emilio Segrè
…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. From 1936 to 1938 he was director of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Palermo. After a visit to Ernest O. Lawrence's Berkeley Radiation…