This collection documents the personal and professional life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist and University of California, Berkeley professor Emilio Segrè and offers insights into the history of physics and physicists in the 20th Century. Segrè's papers include personal and professional correspondence; family papers and personalia; materials related to Segrè’s mentor and colleague, Enrico Fermi; articles, drafts, manuscripts, talks, and publications; journals and notebooks; book projects; records from the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Lab and Los Alamos National laboratory; materials related to Segrè’s Nobel Prize; administrative records from the University of California Berkeley; course materials; and works by other physicists.

Emilio Gino Segrè was born in 1905 in Tivoli, Italy. His father, Giuseppe, was a successful industrialist, and his mother, Amelia Treves, was the daughter of a prominent architect. He had two brothers, Angelo Marco and Marco Claudio. Segrè married Elfriede Spiro in 1936. They had three children, Claudio, Amelia Segrè Terkel, and Fausta Segrè Walsby. Elfriede died in 1970, and Segrè married Rosa Mines in 1972.

60 Linear Feet (40 cartons, 2 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 oversize folders, 1 tube)

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Cartons 1-38, Card File Boxes 1-2, Oversize Box 1, Oversize Folders 1-3, and Tube 1 are open for research. Carton 39 contains restricted personal and personnel information and is closed to researchers until 2057.