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Fermi was a steamroller that moved slowly, but knew no obstacles.

Of the physicist Enrico fermi

Emilio Segrè

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

Emilio Segrè

In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

Emilio Segrè

Emilio Segrè

Emilio Segrè

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Born: January 30, 1905

Died: April 22, 1989 (aged 84)

Bio: Emilio Gino Segrè was an Italian physicist and Nobel laureate who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.

Known for:

Enrico Fermi, Physicist (1970)
A mind always in motion
From X-Rays to Quarks (1980)
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (1984)
Experimental nuclear physics (1953)

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