The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959
Awarded on: 1959-10-26
"for their discovery of the antiproton"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Berkeley, CA, USA
Emilio Gino Segrè
Born: 1905-02-01 in Tivoli, Italy
Gender: male
Field: Italian-American chemist and physicist (1905–1989)
Biography
Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian-American chemist and physicist 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.