Emilio Gino Segrè (1905-1989)
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"While the scientist has the specialized knowledge of his discipline, on other subjects he is pretty much prey to the same dark forces as is anybody else. His training and education may help him to overcome some of his irrational urges, but the idea that the objective, cool scientist is above the crowd is fallacious. This should be recognized by the scientists and by the public at large. Scientists are not priests of a magic religion." -- Emilio Gino Segrè
Photo A2; portrait.
CREDIT: AIP Emilio Segrè
Visual Archives,
W. F. Meggers Collection.
Segrè first visited the United States in 1933 when he joined Enrico Fermi in teaching at a summer school for theoretical physics at the University of Michigan. In their spare time, the two Italians toured the Michigan countryside in a used car which they named "The Flying Turtle." Warned that their pronunciation of English needed improvement, especially the sound "r", Segrè and Fermi repeated the phrase "Rear Admiral Byrd wrote a report concerning his travels in the southern part of the Earth" at least twelve times a day.
Photo B4;
at desk, ca. 1946.
CREDIT: Photo by Clyde Wiegand,
courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè
Visual Archives.
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