Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[Pictorial material and objects from the Emilio Segrè papers].
Collection Number:
Collection Overview

Title:

[Pictorial material and objects from the Emilio Segrè papers]

Creator/Contributor:

Segrè, Emilio, creator, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

Chamberlain, June.

Abstract:

Framed painting (FR) is a portrait of Segrè. ffALB box 1 contains plaque (title: Nobel Laureate contemporaries, Portraits of progress) depicting Segrè and Owen Chamberlain. OBJ box 1 contains paper cube models in wooden box with label: 12 models of protons and neutrons indispensible [sic] for the studey [sic] of the thesis "The structures of subatomic particles and of atomic nuclei from the micromechanics of subatomic particles", copyright 1979 Carl Stefani. OBJ box 2 contains a compass set with ownership mark of Giuseppe Isabelli; a box of platinum foil; 2 small gold medals engraved "A Emilio Segrè", one from the University of Padova, the other from Milano; and an empty tobacco tin manufactured by John Cotton Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland with hand-written annotation: Siege of the P-, Aug. 25-Oct 1, 1955, signed by Segrè, Owen Chamberlain, Clyde Wiegand, Thomas Ypsilantis, Herbert Steiner, Edwin M. McMillan, Jim Foote and Don Keller. Nitrate negative (NNEG), depicting an unidentified man, was removed from the memoir of Silvia Treves Levi Vidale in Segrè's papers.

Date:

1930 (issued)

Subject:

Segrè, Emilio -- Archives
Segrè, Emilio -- Portraits

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Emilio Segrè.
Painting by June Chamberlain, wife of Dr. Owen Chamberlain.
RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
OBJ boxes 1-2: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVE: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Pictorial material and objects from the Emilio Segrè papers, BANC PIC 1978.201, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Portraits.
Paintings.

Physical Description:

8 items in 3 boxes, 1 painting and 1 negative

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
OBJ boxes 1-2: RESTRICTED: Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
NITRATE NEGATIVE: CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.

Related Item:

Emilio Segrè papers : Segrè, Emilio.