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# Emilio G. Segre

(1905–1989)   Physicist

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Emilio G. Segre was a physicist.

## Quick Facts About Emilio G. Segre

Born February 1, 1905

Died April 22, 1989

Profession Physicist

## About Emilio G. Segre

Italian physicist and Nobel laureate... \| 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 the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, along with Owen Chamberlain.

##  Quotes by Emilio G. Segre

> [If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilio-g-segre/if-some-nuclear-properties-of-the-heavy-elements-had-been-a-little/)

[Emilio G. Segre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilio-g-segre/)

[Atomic bomb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atomic-bomb/)

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> [In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoretical calculations, and solid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilio-g-segre/in-an-enterprise-such-as-the-building-of-the-atomic-bomb-the/)

[Emilio G. Segre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilio-g-segre/)

[Atomic bomb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atomic-bomb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa8/emilio-g-segre-72287_atomic-bomb_in-an-enterprise-such-as-the-building-of_580007.jpg)

> [ She \[Chien-Shiung Wu\] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilio-g-segre/she-chien-shiung-wu-is-a-slave-driver-she-is-the-image-of-the/)

[Emilio G. Segre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilio-g-segre/)

[Biographies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biographies/)

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> [In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. ……](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emilio-g-segre/in-scientific-matters-there-was-a-common-language-and-one-standard-of/)

[Emilio G. Segre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emilio-g-segre/)

[Affair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affair/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/098/emilio-g-segre-72287_affair_in-scientific-matters-there-was-a-common_2478339.jpg)

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