A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè

A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè

Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Emilio SegrÃ¨ (1905-1989) became Enrico Fermiâ€™s first graduate student in 1928, contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons and was appointed director of the University of Palermoâ€™s physics laboratory in 1936. While visiting the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California in 1938, he learned that he had been dismissed from his Palermo post by Mussoliniâ€™s Fascist regime. Ernest O. Lawrence hired him to work on the cyclotron at Berkeley with Luis Alvarez, Edwin McMillan, and Glenn Seaborg. SegrÃ¨ was one of the first to join Oppenheimer at Los Alamos, where he became a group leader on the Manhattan Project. In 1959, he won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the antiproton. He was a professor of physics at UC Berkeley from 1946 until 1972.

â€œ[A] readable, absorbing, interesting autobiography... A valuable contribution by a person who witnessed the development of much of modern nuclear physics. SegrÃ¨â€™s description of the historic neutron experiments performed in Rome during the mid-1930s by Enrico Fermiâ€™s group, of which SegrÃ¨ was a member, is of inestimable worth.â€ â€” Glenn T. Seaborg, Physics Today

â€œA Mind Always in Motion is Emilio SegrÃ¨â€™s account â€” published four years after his death in 1989 â€” of his personal life and his life in physics... It is absorbing, moving in places and frequently revealing. SegrÃ¨ noted in his preface, â€˜I have not sought to display manners and tact I never had, and I have tried to treat myself no better than any one else.â€™ He ably succeeded in these purposes.â€ â€” Daniel J. Kevles, Nature

â€œFor general readers with an interest in the history of nuclear physics, SegrÃ¨... is among the most personable witnesses.â€ â€” Publishers Weekly
Country USA
Manufacturer Plunkett Lake Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-10-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Plunkett Lake Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-10-18
Format	Kindle eBook

A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè

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