A Mind Always in Motion The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè Emilio Segrè
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Born in Italy to a well-to-do Jewish family, Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) became Enrico Fermi’s first graduate student in 1928, contributed to the discovery of slow neutrons and was appointed director of the University of Palermo’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 Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Ernest O. Lawrence hired him to work on the cyclotron at Berkeley with Luis Alvarez, Edwin McMillan, and Glenn Seaborg. Segrè 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.
“[A] readable, absorbing, interesting autobiography... A valuable contribution by a person who witnessed the development of much of modern nuclear physics. Segrè’s description of the historic neutron experiments performed in Rome during the mid-1930s by Enrico Fermi’s group, of which Segrè was a member, is of inestimable worth.” — Glenn T. Seaborg, Physics Today
“A Mind Always in Motion is Emilio Segrè’s account — published four years after his death in 1989 — of his personal life and his life in physics... It is absorbing, moving in places and frequently revealing. Segrè noted in his preface, ‘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.’ He ably succeeded in these purposes.” — Daniel J. Kevles, Nature
“For general readers with an interest in the history of nuclear physics, Segrè... is among the most personable witnesses.” — Publishers Weekly
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A Mind Always in Motion The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè Emilio Segrè Reviews
It is clear from his autobiography that Emilo Segre was a complex and often difficult individual to work with or to satisfy. He was also highly intelligent and educated in the European fashion of his time. I found his book extremely interesting and well written. He skillfully integrates scientific and political activities with a highly critical appraisal of the personal characteristics of many of the the important pyhsicists of the mid 20th century. It is not difficult to understand why he was called Basilisk. Perhaps, in light of the current sate of outcome of our national election the following quote from the book is merited "I believe that the pettiness, the jelousy, and the inclination to litigation prevailing in a democracy such as the United States are in the long run sources of weakness. I recommend this book highly.
Very interesting biography of an important Nobel prize winning scientist.
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