Emilio Segrè

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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1. How big is Emilio Segrè?Technetium (Tc), discovered in 1937
2. Who discovered Emilio Segrè?Antiproton, discovered in 1955
3. What is the academic background?Studied engineering and then physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza
4. What is the nobel prize citation?For the discovery of the antiproton
5. What new element did Emilio Segrè discover?He discovered technetium, the first element that scientists made in a lab. It showed that the periodic table could grow with human creativity.
6. How did Emilio Segrè find the antiproton?Segrè worked with Owen Chamberlain at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Together they ran experiments that proved the antiproton, the opposite of a proton, existed.

Nuclear Physics: The branch of physics concerned with the structure and properties of atomic nuclei.
Radiochemistry: The study of radioactivity, radioactive materials, and nuclear processes.
Antiparticle: A subatomic particle that has the same mass as a given particle but opposite electric charge and magnetic moment.
Isotope: One of two or more forms of the same chemical element that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.