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A

Abelson, Philip, 308 n.6, 317 nn.14, 15 ;

at Berkeley, 113 , 135 , 152 , 153 , 164 , 165 ;

and neptunium, 153 , 306 n.24, 308 n.6

Accademia dei Lincei, 8 , 61 , 119 , 239 , 253 , 279 , 289

Accelerators, 283 -84;

and antiparticles, 255 -59;

Berkeley bevatron, 256 , 316 n.9;

Berkeley cyclotron, 112 -14, 133 -36, 150 , 155 -64 passim, 171 , 229 ;

Berkeley synchrocyclotron, 229 , 249 ;

at Fermilab, 284 ;

Los Alamos cyclotron, 184 ;

and time assignments, 243 -44;

Washington University cyclotron, 209

Acque Albule, sulfur baths, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291

Aebersold, Paul, 135

Aeby, Jack, 189

Africa, 275 -77

Alikanian brothers, 263

Allegri, Natale, 16 -17

Allison, Sam K., 142 -43, 154 , 187 , 201 , 251

Alvarez, L. W., 172 , 241 ;

at Berkeley, 135 , 144 , 155 -56, 163 , 207 , 235 , 237 , 258 -59, 267 , 275 , 316 n.9;

at Los Alamos, 185 ;

memoirs, 297 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 ;

at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;

Soviet invitation to, 262

Alvaro, Altairante, 250

Amaldi, Edoardo, 28 , 120 , 149 , 289 ;

and antiprotons, 255 , 258 ;

in Cambridge, 92 , 93 ;

and CERN directorship, 275 ;

and Fermi's papers, 268 ;

German troops and, 195 ;

and military service, 55 , 60 ;

and neutron work, 89 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 245 ;

in New York, 112 ;

in Oslo, 68 ;

in Rome, 40 , 41 , 47 -52 passim, 61 , 63 , 83 -95 passim, 105 -6, 111 , 119 , 290 ;

and University of Palermo competition, 103 ;

in U.S., 144

Amaldi, Ginestra (Edoardo's wife), 90 , 92 , 93 , 95 , 120 , 258

Amaldi, Ugo (Edoardo's father), 41 , 288

Amaldi, Ugo (Edoardo's son), 93

American Chemical Society, 259

American College of Nuclear Physicians, 294

American Physical Society, 234 , 299

Amsterdam, 100 .

See also Zeeman lab

Ancona, Giacomo, 22 , 133 , 222 , 227 , 237 , 270

Ancona, Italy, 3 , 4 -5

Anderson, C. D., 197 , 255 , 268

Andrea Doria , 280

Angeli-Rimini reaction of aldehydes, 4

Annual Review of Nuclear Science , 231 , 232

Antineutron, 258 , 316 n.9

Antiparticles, 255 -59

Antiprotons, 243 , 255 -59, 260 -61, 269 -70, 273 , 274 , 316 n.9

Anti-Semitism: finances for victims of, 100 ;

Italian, 4 , 55 , 86 , 111 , 119 , 132 , 140 , 217 , 225 ;

of Lo Surdo, 55 ;

Manifesto della razza , 132 , 140 ;

Nazi, 79 , 97 , 100 ;

Treyes family and, 10 ;

U.S., 102

Argentina, 250

Arizona, 294 -95


320

Armenia, 263

Artom, Camillo, 115

Artom, Eugenio, 225

Artom, Giuliana (cousin), 225

Astatine (element 85), 155 , 211 , 243 , 248

Aston, Francis, 117

Atombau und Spektrallinien (Sommerfeld), 68

Atomic bomb: Angelo on, 213 ;

Fermi's comments on, 252 ;

and Hiroshima, 209 ;

Los Alamos and, 176 -77, 179 -206;

Rotblat and, 189 , 312 n.7;

Soviet, 214 , 237 , 238 .

See also Hydrogen bomb

Atomic Energy Act, U.S., 245

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S., 169 , 246 , 247 , 284

B

Bacher, R. F., 182 , 188

Back, E., 65 , 67

Bainbridge, Kenneth, 201

Baker, Nicholas. See Bohr, Niels

Bakker, Cornelius J., 66 , 90 , 120 , 275 ;

at Philips, 99 ;

at Zeeman's lab, 66 , 67 , 83 , 136

Balbo, Italo, 149

Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa, 276 -77

Barbella, Costantino, 17

Barresi, Ginetta, 110 , 141 , 149

Beck, Guido, 250

Benin, Oba of, 276

Berkeley, 206 ;

move from (1955), 253 ;

Piedmont Ave. house, 144 ;

settling in, 114 ;

Spruce Street house, 170 , 253 ;

visits, 112 -14, 128 , 131 -78.

See also Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley

Bernardini, Gilberto, 120 , 239 ;

book on elementary physics, 111 ;

and CERN directorship, 275 ;

at Columbia, 260 ;

at Cosmic Ray Lab, 233 ;

at University of Illinois, 239 ;

and University of Palermo competition, 103

Beta decay, 152 , 165 , 261 , 264 ;

Fermi and, 86 , 88 , 157 , 163 , 165

Bethe, Hans A., 280 ;

and accelerators, 135 ;

in Berkeley, 176 ;

at Cornell, 207 ;

at General Electric, 213 ;

and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;

at Los Alamos, 185 , 187 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 ;

at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;

in Rome, 63

Bhabha, Homi Jehangir, 282

Birge, Raymond T., 161 -62, 211 , 237 , 310 n.21;

and "peace" physics, 172 ;

and physics department staff, 208 , 209 , 210 , 234

Bjerge, Dane T., 93 , 94

Blackett, Patrick, 247

Bloch, Felix: in Berkeley, 144 , 146 ;

at Los Alamos, 185 , 187 , 193 ;

and neptunium, 152 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 ;

in Rome, 63

Bogoliubov, Nikolai, 263

Bohr, Aage, 193 -94

Bohr, Niels, 46 , 305 n.14;

and Denmark, 122 -23, 194 , 268 ;

Heisenberg and, 122 -23;

Hevesy and, 116 ;

at Los Alamos, 193 -95;

and Nobel Prize, 151 , 272

Bonfante, Giuliano, 18

Boni, Giacomo, 40

Boole, George, 192

Bordoni, U., 41

Bozzolo, Italy, 3

Bray, W. C., 136

Brazil, 249 -50, 259

Bregman, Elizabeth, 285

Breit, Gregory, 169 , 176

Bretscher, Egon, 163 , 233

Briggs, Lyman J., 166 , 170

British Mission, 192 -93

Brobeck, William, 158

Brode, Bernice, 133 , 142 , 193

Brode, Robert B., 133 , 142 -43, 172 , 187 , 193 , 233 -34, 235 , 237

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 220 , 240 -41, 247 , 284

C

Cacciapuoti, B. N., 110 , 116

California, 63 -64, 142 -44;

Lafayette, 253 -54, 258 , 286 -87, 288 .

See also Berkeley

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 63 -64

Calutrons, 197 -98

Campetti, A., 103

Cannizzaro, Stanislao, 106

Carducci, Giosué, 17 , 25

Careri, Giorgio, 290

Carlandi, Onorato, 17


321

Carrelli, Antonio, 103 , 107 -8, 126

Castelnuovo, Guido, 38 , 39 , 55

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 92 -93, 117

CERN, 290 ;

directorship, 268 , 275 ;

international scientific conference, 265

Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 282

Chadwick, James, 87 , 93 , 190 -91, 192 , 247

Chalmers, T. A., 150

Chamberlain, Owen, 242 , 260 , 261 ;

and antiprotons, 256 , 257 , 258 , 260 , 316 n.9;

at Berkeley, 172 -73, 176 , 227 , 229 -30, 231 , 256 , 258 , 283 ;

at Brookhaven, 247 ;

at Chicago, 206 , 230 ;

at Harvard, 260 , 270 ;

at Los Alamos, 178 , 185 , 189 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 , 269 -70;

Soviet Union trip, 262

Chamisso, Adalbert von, "Schloss Boncourt," 254 -55, 315 n.5

Chemistry: Angeli-Rimini reaction of aldehydes, 4 ;

at Berkeley, 211 , 212 ;

changes, 244 ;

at Donegani summer school, 279 -80;

Hofmann medal, 266 -67;

Nobel Prize, 259 -60.

See also Elements

Cherenkov, Pavel, 263

Chew, Geoffrey, 235 , 301 n.4

Chicago: Fermi in, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 , 251 -52;

Fermilab, 284 ;

Metallurgical Laboratory, 211 .

See also University of Chicago

Chromodynamics, 212

Churchill, W., 181

Cipolla, Michele, 106

Cockcroft, John, 93 , 247

Coefficient of aquaticity, 96

Cohnen, H., 65 -66

"Cold fusion," 299

Collegio Ghislieri fellowships, 4

Colombo, Umberto, 279 -80

Columbia University, 101 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264

Communist Party, U.S., 138 , 139 -40, 234

Competitions: Ferrara, 81 ;

Palermo physics chairs, 101 , 103 , 125 -26

Compton, A. H., 175 , 208 , 278 -79

Condon, E. U., 182

Congress, U.S., 245

Congress of History of Science, Tenth International, 281

Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (CNR), 89 , 125

Conversi, Marcello, 17

Cooksey, Carleton, 135

Cooksey, Don, 113 , 133 , 135 -36, 143 -44, 167 , 174 , 241

Copenhagen: Bohr Institute, 268 ;

conference, 122

Corbino, O. M., 38 , 43 -55 passim, 61 , 90 , 106 , 231 , 245 ;

death, 118 -19, 124 ;

and La Rosa, 100 ;

Rockefeller Foundation advisor, 63 ;

and slow neutron patent, 96 , 244

Cornog, Robert, 135 , 155

Corson, Dale, 155

Coryell, C. D., 317 n.14

Cosmic Ray Lab, Testa Grigia, 233

Coster, Dirk, 117

Crudeli, U., 103

Cuban missile crisis, 282

Curie, Marie, 88 , 102 , 115 , 309 n.7

Cyclotrons. See Accelerators

D

D'Agostino, Oscar, 89 , 245

Dali, Gala, 274

Dali, Salvador, 273 -75

Daniels, F., 317 n.14

d'Annunzio, Gabriele, 17 , 18 , 25 , 57 , 76

Dante Alighieri, 1 , 37 , 104 , 131 , 293

Darrow, K. K., 45

DC amplifier, 133 -34

De Bono, Emilio, 98

Debye, Peter, 65

Defoe, D., 143

de Franchis, Michele, 106

Denmark, 122 -23, 194 , 268

Deutsch, Martin, 189

Diffraction grating, 65 , 66

Dirac, P. A. M., 82 , 255 , 273

Disarmament conference, U.S.-USSR, 265

Dodson, Richard, 198

Dolomites, 108 -9, 120 -21

Donegani, 279 , 290

Donegani Lectures, 239 , 279

Donegani school, 279 , 286

Don Nello del Raso, 36

DuBridge, Lee, 133 -34, 159

Dumas, J. B., 20


322

Dunning, J. R., 102

Duruy, Victor, 20

E

Education: in childhood, 14 , 15 , 18 , 22 , 31 -32;

in engineering, 37 -38, 41 , 43 , 46 , 48 -49;

high school, 24 -26, 32 , 33 -34, 37 ;

in Judaism, 35 ;

in languages, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 34 ;

in mathematics, 22 , 26 , 38 , 39 -40, 41 , 46 , 52 -53;

in physics, 19 -20, 26 , 33 -34, 37 -56, 61 -63;

university, 37 -56

Ehrenfest, Paul, 63

Einstein, Albert, 35 -36, 46 , 272 , 273 , 278 , 292

Elements, 116 -17;

americium, 197 ;

astatine, 155 , 211 , 243 , 248 ;

beryllium, 157 ;

hafnium, 117 ;

masurium, 90 , 115 , 117 ;

neptunium, 152 -53, 165 , 306 n.24;

rhenium, 117 , 152 ;

rhodium, 138 ;

thorium, 91 ;

uranium, 91 -92, 96 , 113 , 152 , 163 -67, 171 , 197 -98;

xenon, 153.

See also Plutonium; Technetium

Ellis, C. D., 87

Emo, Barbara, 226

Emo, Lorenzo, 113 , 132 -33, 271 , 280 , 292 ;

in Berkeley, 118 , 132 -33, 135 , 140 , 142 , 146 ;

in Italy, 224 , 225 -26

Engineering: Brobeck and, 158 ;

education in, 37 -38, 41 , 43 , 46 , 48 -49

England: Cavendish Laboratory, 92 -93, 117 ;

Proceedings of the Royal Society , 62 , 93 ;

Royal Institution, 293 ;

visits, 67 -68, 78 , 92 -93, 293 .

See also London

English, S. G., 169

English language, 33 , 82 -83

Enriques, Federigo, 111

Enriques, Giovanni, 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 65

Euler, Hans von, 122

Everest, George, 193

Experimental Nuclear Physics (Segrè), 232 , 262

F

Fano, Ugo, 71 , 287

Fanzolo villa, 225 -26

Faraday, M., 20 , 88 , 243 , 293

Farwell, George, 178 , 189 , 206

Fascism, 103 , 127 , 139 , 149 , 214 , 217 ;

Avanguardisti youth organization, 28 -29;

Giuseppe Segrè and, 29 , 84 , 85 ;

Italian consul in Germany and, 69 ;

of Lo Surdo, 55 -56;

Manifesto della razza , 132 , 140 ;

Palermo people against, 105 , 106 , 108 , 127 ;

Rockefeller Foundation and, 63 ;

Segrè uncles and, 8 , 29 .

See also Mussolini, Benito

Fascist Party, 29 , 139 , 149

FBI, 170

Feenberg, Eugene, 63

Fermi, Enrico, 28 , 79 , 146 , 194 , 231 , 261 , 273 ;

in Berkeley, 112 , 156 -57, 161 , 232 ;

and beta decay, 86 , 88 , 157 , 163 , 165 ;

biography, 268 ;

at Brookhaven, 247 ;

in Chicago, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 , 251 -52;

at Columbia, 167 ;

Compton and, 279 ;

"crumbs," 61 -62, 65 ;

death (1954), 252 -53;

Donegani Lectures, 239 ;

on Garwin, 240 ;

and hydrogen bomb, 238 , 251 ;

international physics conferences, 45 , 46 , 88 , 94 ;

Introduzione alla fisica atomica , 52 ;

in Italy, 41 -69 passim, 81 -95 passim, 118 , 119 , 251 ;

judging at competitions, 80 , 103 ;

letters of recommendation by, 278 ;

at Los Alamos, 126 -27, 182 , 183 , 185 , 187 , 191 , 197 , 198 , 202 , 203 -4, 232 ;

in Michigan, 82 , 101 , 102 ;

neutron work and patent, 88 -95 passim, 111 , 243 , 244 , 245 -46, 247 ;

in New Jersey, 162 -63;

and Nobel Prize, 151 , 259 -60;

Oppenheimer contrasted with, 138 , 139 ;

and Palermo chair of theoretical physics, 125 ;

papers published after death, 268 , 280 ;

and parity nonconservation, 265 ;

Seaborg contrasted with, 168 -69;

and Segrè's Berkeley position, 150 , 154 -55;

South American lecture tour, 92 ;

stomach cancer, 227 , 251 -52;

and Teller, 63 , 251 -52;

and uranium, 152

Fermi, Laura, 59 , 252 , 260 , 284 , 287 ;

Atoms in the Family , 252

Fermilab, 284

Fermi-Segrè formula, 81

Ferrari, Fabio, 301 n.4

Ferro-Luzzi, Giovanni, 39 , 40 , 44 , 85

Feynman, Richard P., 185

Finances: in Berkeley, 147 -48, 153 -54, 161 , 170 , 172 , 210 ;

for cyclotron, 135 ;

for displaced Jews, 100 ;

in Israel,


323

283 ;

Italian professors, 223 ;

Los Alamos earnings, 147 ;

after marriage, 108 ;

Nobel Prize, 272 -73;

patent, 247 ;

Physics Institute, 90 ;

Segrè family, 11 , 14 , 84 -86, 101 -2, 107 , 108 , 140 -49 passim, 170 , 216 -22;

after university, 57 , 65 , 69 , 85

Fink, G. A., 102

Finzi family, 19

Fission: discovery of, 151 -52, 245 , 265 , 299 ;

spontaneous, 185 , 195 -97

Florence, 30 .

See also Treves villa

Forbidden lines. See Quadrupole radiation

Foscolo, Ugo, 30

Fraenkel, Stanley, 176

France: family education in, 4 ;

Paris, 239 .

See also French language

Franchetti, Piero, 44

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and Este, 2 , 10

Franck, James, 154 , 260

Frascati Laboratory, 290

French language, 18 , 25 -26, 299

Friedländer, Gerhart, 169 , 176 , 317 n.14

Frisch, Otto, 69 -70, 87 , 192 , 193 , 305 n.13

From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (Segrè), 293 , 298

From X-Rays to Quarks (Segrè), 281 , 298

Frugoni, Prof., 22

Fuchs, Klaus, 193

Fulbright fellowship, 239

G

Ganot, Adophe, 20 , 38

Garwin, Richard L., 240 , 265 , 278

General Electric, 213 , 245

Gentile, Giovanni, Jr., 50 , 111 , 125 -26

Gentile, Giovanni, Sr., 50 , 98 , 126

German Chemical Society, 266 -67

German language, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 299

Germany, 69 , 123 ;

Gino Segrè and, 8 ;

Spiros, 96 -97, 127 , 149 ;

surrender, 199 .

See also Hamburg; Hitler, A.; Nazis

Giannini, G. M., 82 , 236 -37, 245

Giordani, Francesco, 239 , 289

Glashow, Sheldon, 234

Gofman, Jack, 169

Goldberger, Marvin, 235

Goldhaber, Gerson, 256 , 260

Goldhaber, Maurice, 93

Gordon, William E., 70

Gordon Conference, 247 -48

Goudsmit, S. A., 272

Grating, diffraction, 65 , 66

Griggs, Helen, 169 -70

Grimod, M., 25 -26

Grosse, Aristide von, 306 n.24

Groves, Leslie R., 177 , 179 -80, 182 , 183 , 201 -2, 309 n.9

Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68

H

Haber, Fritz, 97

Hahn, Erwin, 240

Hahn, Otto, 91 , 151 , 152 , 267

Haissinsky, Moise, 102

Halford, Ralph, 150

Hamburg, 123 ;

experiments, 68 -72, 87 ;

romance in, 71 -78, 79 -80, 123 , 269 ;

visits, 122 -24, 268 -69

Heisenberg, Werner, 46 , 122 -23, 229 , 273 , 309 n.7

Helmholz, Betty, 287

Helmholz, Carl, 287

Herskovits, M. J., 276

Hevesy, Georg von, 116 -17, 250 , 259 , 281

Hilberry, Norman, 175

History of science, 280 -81, 298

Hitchcock Lecturers, 156 , 193

Hitler, A., 92 , 132 , 177 , 200 ;

Americans and, 139 -40;

coming to power (January 1933), 78 ;

and immigration restrictions, 145 ;

Mussolini and, 92 , 127 -28, 132 ;

scholar victims, 63 , 100 ;

suicide, 199 .

See also Nazis

Hofmann medal, 266 -67

Holland: Josephy in, 100 ;

neutron conferences, 99 -100;

Philips Company, 99 -100, 245 ;

Zeeman lab, 65 , 66 -67, 78 -79, 99 , 128 , 136

Hughes, A. L., 209

Hydrogen bomb, 237 -38, 251 .

See also Atomic bomb

Hypefine structure, 81 -82, 87

I

Ibadan University, Nigeria, 275

IBM, 240

Illinois. See University of Chicago; University of Illinois, Urbana

India, 282


324

Inglis, D. R., 63 , 82

Iran, 282 -83

Isomerism, nuclear, 137 -38, 150 -51, 243

Israel, 282 -83, 302 n.5

Italy, 4 , 63 , 131 , 208 , 288 -89, 292 ;

Accademia dei Lincei, 8 , 61 , 119 , 239 , 253 , 279 , 289 ;

Acque Albule sulfur baths, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291 ;

anti-Semitism/racial laws, 4 , 55 , 86 , 111 , 119 , 132 , 140 , 217 , 225 ;

Civil Code, 7 ;

Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 90 , 125 ;

consuls in Germany from, 69 ;

military's diversity in, 60 ;

physics in, 38 , 46 , 49 , 119 ;

postwar visits, 195 , 213 , 221 , 222 -27, 232 -33;

stay in 1970s, 288 -92;

touring, 41 -45, 109 , 124 , 290 -91, 292 -93;

and U.S. visas, 128 -29;

visit in 1960s, 282 -83;

and World War II, 79 , 92 , 103 , 171 , 173 , 195 .

See also Fascism; Mussolini, Benito; individual cities and universities

Ivanenko, D. D., 263

J

Japan, World War II, 171 , 203 , 209

Japanese Americans, World War II, 173

Jaspers, Karl, 267

Jeffries, Carson D., 283

Jenkins, Francis A., 172 , 275 ;

in Berkeley, 133 , 142 -43, 150 , 210 , 233 -34, 235 , 249

Jenkins, Henriette, 133 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 249 , 275

Jensen, Hans D., 70 , 260

Jentschke, W., 268 -69

Jews: brother Marco on, 28 ;

education in Judaism, 35 ;

finances for displaced, 100 ;

military leave for Yom Kippur, 59 ;

practicing/nonpracticing, 10 -11, 35 .

See also Anti-Semitism

Johnson, Lyndon, 284

Joliot-Curies, Frédéric and Irène, 88 -89, 91 , 152 , 239

Josephy, B., 69 , 100

Jungerman, John, 189

K

Kahn, Milton, 176 , 178 , 189

Kalbfell, David, 135

Kamen, Martin D., 135 , 144

Kammerlingh Onnes, Heike, 2

Kapitza, Peter, 93 , 263

Keats, John, 228

Kennedy, John F., 281

Kennedy, Joseph W., 317 nn. 14 , 15 ;

at Berkeley, 151 , 164 -76 passim;

at Los Alamos, 178 , 187 , 195 , 197 ;

and plutonium patent, 246 ;

stomach cancer, 247 ;

at Washington University, 208 , 209

Kerst, Donald, 187 , 239 , 259

King, Percival, 187

Kistiakowsky, George B., 197 , 281

Klein, Felix, 111

Klein, Oscar, 268 , 271 -72

Knauer, F., 69

Konopinski, E. J., 176

Kristeller, P. O., 98

Kuhn, Thomas S., 280 -81

Kurie, Franz, 113

Kuroda, P. K., 308 n.11

L

Landau, E., 41

Landau, L. D., 263

Langsdorf, Alex, Jr., 137 , 153

Languages: education in, 15 , 18 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 34 ;

English, 33 , 82 -83;

French, 18 , 25 -26, 299 ;

German, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 299 ;

Latin and Greek, 25 , 34

Lansdale, John, Jr., 174 -75

Lark-Horovitz, Karl, 160 -61

La Rosa, Michele, 100 -101, 105

Latimer, W. M., 168 , 309 n.9

Lattes, Dante, 35

Lattes, G. C., 249 , 250

Lawrence, Ernest O., 70 , 113 , 134 -35, 143 -73 passim, 209 -12 passim, 241 -42, 266 , 277 , 313 n.1;

and antiprotons, 257 , 258 ;

and atomic weapons, 171 , 237 -38;

and bevatron, 256 ;

and calutrons, 197 ;

colitis, 266 ;

and Cooksey, 135 -36, 241 ;

and DC amplifier, 133 ;

death, 266 , 267 ;

at disarmament conference, 265 -66;

and letters of recommendation, 278 ;

and loyalty oath, 235 ;

and Nobel Prize, 149 , 151 , 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;

and patents, 246 ;

and Physical Review articles, 137 -38, 170 ;

and Piccioni accusations, 257 ;

Seaborg contrasted with, 168 ;

sending radioactive substances, 112 ,


325

115 , 118 ;

and Soviet Union trip, 261 -62

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), 267 , 283 -84

League of Nations, 109 , 182 , 204

Lederman, Leon, 265

Lee, Tsung-Dao, 264 , 265

Leininger, R., 211

Leitz, Fred, 169

Lenz, W., 70

Leone, Giovanni, 289

Leopardi, Giacomo, 24

Levi-Civita, Tullio, 38 -39, 54 , 63

Lewis, G. N., 136 , 168

Leyden, John, 18

Libby, Willard F., 150 -51, 317 n.14

Lignola, Marquis, 58

Linenberger, G. A., 178 , 189

Livermore Lawrence Laboratory (LLL), 267

Lofgren, Edward, 256 , 316 n.9

Lombroso, Cesare, 194

London, Fritz, 63

London: international physics conference, 94 ;

parents in, 14 ;

Royal Institution, 293 ;

visits, 67 -68, 78 , 92 , 293

Loomis, Alfred, 167

Loomis, W. F., 239

Los Alamos, 173 , 177 -78, 179 -207, 230 , 275 ;

apartment, 186 -87;

Big House, 180 , 182 ;

earnings at, 147 ;

Fuller Lodge, 180 -81, 182 , 185 ;

Lansdale monitoring, 174 -75;

and loyalty oath, 236 ;

Oppenheimer at, 139 , 180 ;

outings, 190 -92;

Pajarito, 186 ;

physical surroundings, 180 -81

"Los Alamos Primer," 182

Lo Surdo, Antonino, 52 , 53 -56, 64 , 119 , 173

Loyalty oath, 234 -36, 238 , 246

Luedemann, Hermann, 97 , 307 n.31

M

Macaluso, Damiano, 106

McCarthy, Joseph, 278 -79

McMahon Act (1946), U.S., 246

McMillan, Edwin, 172 , 241 ;

at Berkeley, 113 , 135 , 144 , 152 , 153 , 165 , 207 ;

at Los Alamos, 185 , 187 , 205 ;

and neptunium, 153 , 306 n.24, 308 n.6;

and Nobel Prize, 185 , 259 , 270 , 317 n.15;

phase stability discovery, 212 ;

Rad Lab director, 267 ;

Soviet invitation to, 262

Maggini, Signorina (teacher), 15 , 18 , 291

Maglic, Bogdan, 258 -59

Majorana, Ettore, 229 , 303 n.3;

disappearance, 126 -27;

and Feenberg, 63 ;

and Palermo chair, 125 -26;

in Rome, 39 -40, 46 , 49 -50, 51 , 71

Majorana, Luciano, 126

Majorana, Quirino, 46 , 80

Mandò, Manlio, 110

Manhattan District, 177 , 179 -206, 208 , 246

Manley, John, 176 , 178 , 187

Marconi, G., 112 , 126

Marshall, George, 203

Martinez, Maria, 187

Mathematics, education in, 22 , 26 , 38 , 39 -40, 41 , 46 , 52 -53

Matteotti, Giacomo, 29

Maxwell, James Clerk, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism , 70

Mayer, Maria, 260

Medicine, nuclear, 293 -94

Meitner, Lise, 87 , 91 , 152 , 271 -72

Mendeleyev, D. I., 115 , 264

Mesons, 283 ;

K, 264 ;

rho, 259 , 261

Metallurgical Laboratory, Chicago, 211

Methyl bromide, 159

Metropolis, Nicholas, 230

Mexicali, Mexico, 145 -46

Michigan. See University of Michigan

Military: and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;

Italian service, 26 , 28 , 54 -55, 57 -61, 121 ;

U.S., 177 , 179 -80, 182 -84, 189 , 200 , 202 -3, 232 , 238

Millikan, Robert A., 46 , 63

Millman, S., 102

Mines Segrè, Rosa, 284 , 288 , 294 -95, 297 -300

Minkowski, Hermann, 70

Miskel, John, 178 , 189

Mitchell, D. P., 102 , 187 , 188

Moderation process, 95

Molecular beam work, 68 -71, 83 , 102 , 243

Moll Flanders (Defoe), 143

Montanelli, I., 240

Montecatini chemical company, 239 , 279 , 290


326

Montemartini, 106 , 114

Moon, P. B., 95 , 192

Morandi, Luigi, 239 , 279 -80

Moyer, Burton J., 36

Mulford, Dean & Mrs., 170

Muons, 122 , 264 -65

Mussolini, Benito, 46 , 92 , 121 , 127 -28, 132 , 171 , 195

N

Naples, wedding trip, 107 -8

National Bureau of Standards, 264

Nature , 61 , 62 , 64 , 257

Nazis, 200 , 214 -15;

Amelia Segrè captured by, 23 , 195 , 214 ;

German romances and, 78 , 79 , 96 -97, 269 ;

and Luedemann, 307 n.31;

scientists and, 100 , 154 , 189 , 194 , 269 .

See also Hitler, A.

Neddermeyer, Seth, 197

Ne'eman, Yuval, 283

Nelson, Eldred, 176

Nepal, 282

Nernst, Walther, 38

Neutrons: antineutron, 258 , 316 n.9;

discovery of, 88 , 190 -91, 281 ;

patent, 96 , 244 -46, 247 ;

Physics Institute work on, 88 -96, 243 ;

slow, 94 -96, 244 -46, 247 .

See also Nuclear physics

New England, 247 -48

New Mexico, 187 , 192 , 200 -202, 275.

See also Los Alamos

New York: Angelo in, 146 -47, 159 , 213 , 221 ;

Columbia University, 102 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264 ;

Riccardo Rimini in, 248 .

See also Brookhaven National Laboratory

Neylan, J. F., 234 , 235

Nigeria, 275 -77

Nikotin, I. P., 263

Nobel, Alfred, 265

Nobel Prizes, 154 , 165 , 265 , 269 , 272 , 281 , 317 n.15;

Alvafez, 185 ;

Bethe, 185 ;

Bloch, 185 ;

Chamberlain, 185 , 269 -70;

Fermi, 151 ;

Feynman, 185 ;

Jensen, 260 ;

Lawrence and, 149 , 151 , 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;

Lee, 265 ;

McMillan and, 185 , 259 , 270 , 317 n.15;

Mayer, 260 ;

Onnes, 2 ;

Rabi, 185 ;

Raman, 60 ;

Seaborg, 259 ;

Segrè, 185 , 221 -22, 241 , 259 , 261 , 265 , 269 -73, 317 n.15;

Siegbahns, 318 n.24;

Tamm, 263 ;

Yang, 265 ;

Zeeman, 66

Nobles, Bill, 189

Noddack, Walter K., 115 , 116 , 117 -18, 124

Norway, 68 , 268

Noyes, A. A., 136

Nuclear explosion, 199 ;

in Japan, 203 , 204 ;

predetonation, 185 ;

tests, 200 -202, 203

Nuclear isomerism, 137 -38, 150 -51, 243

Nuclear medicine, 293 -94

Nuclear physics, 162 -63, 231 -32, 245 ;

at Berkeley, 134 , 137 -38, 195 -96, 211 -12, 228 -31, 243 , 280 ;

at Chicago, 175 -76;

at Columbia, 102 -3, 112 ;

Experimental Nuclear Physics , 232 , 262 ;

Fermi's written lectures on, 252 ;

in Holland, 99 -100;

in Italy, 86 -96, 111 ;

at Los Alamos, 179 -206;

patents, 96 , 244 -46;

in Rome, 290 ;

textbook on, 280 .

See also Accelerators; Elements; Fission; Neutrons; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley

Nuclear weapons, 171 , 237 .

See also Atomic bomb; Hydrogen bomb

Nuclei and Particles (Segrè), 280

Nucleon-nucleon interaction, 228 -30, 233 , 243 , 248

O

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 197 -98

Occhialini, Giuseppe, 292 -93

Oliphant, Marcus, 93

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 138 -39, 209 , 263 , 309 n.9;

at Berkeley, 113 , 137 -39, 156 -57, 174 -77 passim, 229 ;

hearings, 251 , 309 n.9;

and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;

at Los Alamos, 139 , 177 -203 passim

Orvieto, Angiolo, 11

Ovid, 25

P

Palermo, 104 , 109 -10;

apartment on Piazza Franceso Crispi, 119 -20, 253 ;

Elfriede leaving, 141 ;

Hotel Excelsior, 108 ;

Pensione Lincoln, 105 , 108 ;

Physics Institute, 105 -6, 110 , 268 ;

postwar, 268 ;

Rotary Club, 127 ;

University of, 101 , 103 , 104 -30, 208

Paneth, Fritz, 92 , 116 -17

Panofsky, Wolfgang, 235 , 241 , 260 , 262 , 265

Paper mill (family business), 9 -10, 14 ,


327

84 -85, 291 ;

award ceremony for old employees, 269 ;

father's estate and, 84 -85, 215 -22, 225 ;

Marco and, 43 , 84 -85, 216 -21, 225 ;

Rome office, 22 -23, 98

Parini, Giuseppe, 207

Paris, 239

Parity nonconservation, 264 -65

Parravano, Nicola, 38 , 119

Paschen, F., 65

Pasquali, Giorgio, 34

Patent: plutonium, 244 , 246 -47;

on slow neutrons, 96 , 244 -46, 247

Pauli, Wolfgang, 46 , 70 , 88 , 233

Peano, Giuseppe, 25

Pegram, G. B., 101 , 112 , 145 , 163 -64

Peierls, Rudolf, 63 , 192 , 247

Penney, William, 192 , 247

Perlman, Isidor, 169

Perlman, Morris, 169 , 176

Perosi, Don Lorenzo, 127

Perrier, Carlo, 105 , 106 , 116 , 118 , 127 , 224

Persico, Enrico, 94 , 125 , 224 , 268

Peru, 250 -51

Philips Company, Eindhoven, 99 -100, 245

Phipps, T. E., 69

Physical Review , 87 , 137 -38, 150 -51, 166 , 170 , 257

Physics, 57 , 231 , 242 -44;

American Physical Society, 234 , 299 ;

"without apparatus," 242 -43;

"battleship experiments," 242 -43, 258 ;

at Berkeley, 154 -55, 161 -62, 172 -73, 230 -31, 233 -36, 243 , 280 , 283 , 288 , 310 n.21;

book on nuclear and particle, 280 ;

education, 19 -20, 26 , 33 -34, 37 -56;

international conferences, 45 -46, 88 , 94 , 233 ;

lectures on, 281 , 282 ;

molecular beam work, 68 -71, 83 , 243 ;

Moyer in, 36 ;

Nobel Prize prestige, 272 ;

Occhialini on, 293 ;

particle, 261 , 264 , 280 ;

at Purdue, 160 -61;

quadrupole radiation, 64 -65, 67 , 68 , 83 -84, 243 ;

"swollen atoms"/ Rydberg states, 83 -84, 150 , 243 ;

teaching, 110 -11, 172 , 280 , 288 ;

weak interactions, 88 , 264 -65.

See also Antiparticles; Beta decay; Cyclotron; Nuclear physics; Quantum mechanics; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley

Physics Institute: Palermo, 105 -6, 110 , 268 ;

Rome (Via Panisperna), 46 , 48 , 55 , 59 -65 passim, 83 -96 passim, 10 -56, 119 , 223 , 309 n.7

Piazzi, Giuseppe, 106

Piccioni, Oreste, 248 , 258 , 316 n.9

Pittarelli, Professor, 38 , 40

Pius V, Pope, 4

Pius XI, Pope, 236

Placzek, George, 63 , 154 , 213 , 273

Planck, Max, 46 , 272

Plutonium, 163 -70, 175 -76, 185 , 196 -97, 243 ;

patent, 244 , 246 -47

Pochettino, Alfredo, 80

Poincaré, Jules-Henri, 5

Poles: and Nazis, 189 ;

and U.S. visas, 128 -29

Polo, Marco, 18

Pontecorvo, Bruno: at General Electric, 213 ;

and neutron work, 94 , 95 , 245 , 246 ;

in Paris, 160 ;

and rhodium, 138 ;

in Soviet Union, 236 -37, 246 , 262 ;

Tulsa job, 160 , 237

Popovi, 187

Positron, 255

Powell, Wilson, 258

Prestwood, René J., 169 , 189

Proceedings of the Royal Society , 62 , 93

Pseudopotential, 84

Puccianti, Luigi, 80

Purdue University, 160 -61

Pusterla, Emilia, 2 , 16

Pusterla, Luigi, 16 , 17

P waves, 212

Q

Quadrupole radiation, 64 -65, 67 , 68 , 78 , 83 -84, 243

Quakers, 143

Quantum mechanics, 52 , 66 , 138

R

Rabi, I. I.: at Columbia, 102 ;

at Los Alamos, 180 , 185 ;

molecular beam work, 102 , 243 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 ;

at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;

Physical Review , 87

Racah, Giulio, 86 , 125 , 126 , 283

Racism. See Anti-Semitism

Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, 210 -11, 228 -30, 241 -43, 312 n.3;

administrative


328

work, 277 -78;

and antiparticles/antiprotons, 243 , 255 -59, 260 -61;

and Los Alamos project, 173 , 177 -78, 185 , 195 -96;

and loyalty oath, 235 ;

under McMillan, 267 ;

and patents, 246 ;

radioactive substances sent from, 113 -18 passim;

visit (1936), 112 , 113 -14;

visit (1938-1943), 133 -38, 147 -78.

See also Accelerators; Lawrence, Ernest O.; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Radiations from Radioactive Substances (Rutherford, Chadwick, & Ellis), 87

Radiciotti, 17

Radioactivity, 309 n.7;

accident, 177 ;

artificial, 88 -89, 309 n.7;

measurement, 133 -34;

nuclear isomerism and, 137 ;

Rad Lab sending substances, 113 -18 passim;

Seaborg and materials with, 211

Railroads, 4 -5, 14

Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata, 60

Raman effect, 60 , 61 , 63 , 64

Ramsey, Norman F., 102

Rasetti, Franco, 28 , 73 , 119 , 120 , 149 ;

and Fermi's papers, 268 , 280 ;

Germany trip, 79 ;

and Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68;

in Morocco, 88 ;

neutron work, 89 , 94 , 95 , 245 ;

in Oslo, 68 ;

in Rome, 43 -53 passim, 87 , 89 , 94 , 95 , 102 ;

and U.S., 63 -64, 81 , 102 -3, 114 , 129 , 133 , 145 , 159 , 294

Ravenna, Renzo (cousin), 149 , 224

Reiche, Fritz, 33 , 38

Religion, 4 , 10 -11, 34 -36, 187 , 236

Rendiconti , 61

La ricerca scientifica , 90 -91, 95

Righi, Augusto, 106

Rimini, Ada, 33 , 99 , 149 , 214 , 222 , 223

Rimini, Bindo (second cousin), 4 , 32 -33, 85 , 98 -99, 108 ;

and Giuseppe's illness, 121 ;

and paper mill, 221 -22;

postwar visit with, 223 ;

in Uruguay, 146 , 149

Rimini, Enrico (cousin), 4 , 32 -33

Rimini, Riccardo (second cousin), 4 , 32 -33, 122 -23;

and Giuseppe's illness, 121 ;

in New York, 247 -48;

and romantic difficulties, 79 , 96 , 123 ;

and Rosa Mines, 284 ;

in Uruguay, 146 , 149 , 174 -75, 284

Rimini, Riccardo (uncle by marriage), 4

Rockefeller Foundation, 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 125 , 275 -76

Roman Forum, 8 , 40

Roesler Franz, Ettore, 17 , 302 n.7

Rome: Appian Way, 29 ;

childhood visits, 21 ;

Donegani Lectures, 239 ;

Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68;

move to Corso Vittorio (and high school), 5 -6, 22 -23, 24 -36, 253 ;

Physics Institute (Via Panisperna), 46 , 48 , 55 , 59 -65 passim, 83 -96 passim, 105 -6, 119 , 223 , 309 n.7;

postwar visits, 214 -15, 222 -27, 267 -68;

stay in 1970s, 288 -92;

Tivoli transport links, 14 ;

Uncle Claudio in, 5 -6, 21 , 23 , 28 ;

wedding in, 107 .

See also University of Rome

Roosevelt, F. D., 140 , 170 , 198 -99

Rose, Morris, 135

Rossi, Bruno, 80 , 94 ;

and antiprotons, 255 ;

at Cornell, 207 ;

at Los Alamos, 182 , 187 , 193 , 194 , 197 , 198

Rossi, Nora, 194

Rostagni, Antonio, 103

Rotary Club, Palermo, 127

Rotblat, Joseph, 189 , 312 n.7

Royal Society, 92 ;

Proceedings of , 62 , 92

Russia: czarist, 5 .

See also Soviet Union

Rutherford, Ernest, 87 , 92 , 124 ;

and Coulomb forces, 212 ;

at international physics conference, 46 ;

and natural radioactive isotopes, 309 n.7;

and neutron work, 92 ;

and Nobel Prize, 272 ;

Radiations from Radioactive Substances , 87 ;

Taylor and, 192 ;

and World War II, 100

Rydberg states/"Swollen atoms," 83 -84, 150 , 243

S

Salvini, Giorgio, 290

Santangelo, Mariano, 110

Sarton Lecturer, 281

Scaduto, G., 125

Scherbatskoy, Serge, 159 , 160 , 237

Schiff, Leonard, 138

Schiller, Friedrich von, 78 , 179 , 249 , 305 n.14

Schirbel, Peter, 97

Schnurmann, R., 69


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Schrödinger, Erwin, 52

Science: history of, 280 -81, 298.

See also Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics

Scienza per tutti , 1 -2, 301 n.2

SCT. See Paper mill

S-D combinations, 64 -65

Seaborg, Glenn T., 163 -65, 168 -69, 299 , 317 n.14;

AEC chairman, 169 , 284 ;

and americium, 197 ;

at Berkeley, 136 , 137 , 150 -51, 163 -70, 195 , 211 -12;

at Chicago, 175 -76, 211 ;

and Nobel Prize, 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;

and patents, 246 -47

Secrecy, 232 , 262 ;

Los Alamos, 183 -84, 190 , 193 , 208 ;

and patents, 245 , 246 ;

Rad Lab, 167 , 170 , 173 -75

Segrè, Amelia Gertrude Allegra (daughter), 178 , 186 , 206 , 270 , 285 , 286 -87, 298

Segrè, Amelia Susanna Treves (mother), 3 , 20 , 22 , 31 , 141 -42, 171 ;

and automobile, 41 -42;

capture by Nazis, 23 , 195 , 214 , 215 ;

and Elfriede, 99 , 124 , 148 ;

and Emilio's German romances, 79 -80, 99 ;

family background, 11 -12;

and Fermi, 62 ;

and finances abroad, 86 ;

and granddaughter's birth, 178 ;

husband's illness, 121 -22;

last visit, 129 -30;

letters to and from U.S., 148 -49;

and Rome move, 23

Segrè, Angelo Marco (brother), 3 , 26 -27, 28 , 31 , 212 , 218 -19;

and finances, 84 , 146 -47, 213 -21 passim;

in New York, 146 -47, 159 , 213 , 221 ;

parents' problems with, 5 , 26 , 27 , 79 -80, 99 ;

science books left by, 33 ;

and Simili, 216 , 218 -19, 221

Segrè, Angelo Miracolo (grandfather), 3 , 4

Segre, Beniamino, 54 , 289 , 301 -2n.4

Segrè, Bice (aunt), 4

Segrè, Bice (cousin), 11

Segrè, Claudio (son), 123 , 124 , 128 , 129 ;

in Berkeley, 144 , 145 ;

birth, 120 ;

children, 285 ;

in Indiana, 160 -61;

and Los Alamos, 186 , 187 , 206 ;

marriage, 285 ;

and mother's death, 286 -87;

Stockholm trip, 270 ;

on trip to U.S., 142 ;

and U.S. visa, 145 -46

Segrè, Claudio (uncle), 3 , 4 , 14 , 19 , 45 ;

and Angelo, 5 , 26 , 27 ;

on engineering degree, 48 ;

and Fascism, 29 ;

in Italian intelligentsia, 8 ;

legacy, 11 ;

and Nobel Prize, 271 ;

and physics, 20 ;

in Rome, 5 -6, 21 , 23 , 28 ;

and sexuality, 30 -31

Segre, Corrado, 5 , 301 -2n.4

Segrè, Egle Cases (grandmother), 3 -4

Segrè, Egle (cousin), 11

Segrè, Elfriede Spiro (wife), 108 , 111 -12, 120 -30 passim, 173 ;

and Angelo's letters, 219 ;

in Berkeley, 112 -14, 140 -49 passim, 160 , 173 , 177 , 186 , 227 ;

birthday, 142 ;

courtship and marriage, 96 -99, 101 -2, 103 , 105 , 107 ;

death, 286 -88;

in Latin America, 249 -51, 284 ;

and letters from Emilio, 213 , 222 ;

and Los Alamos, 186 , 190 , 191 , 192 , 193 , 200 , 203 , 206 , 275 ;

as Luedemann's secretary, 97 , 307 n.31;

nickname, 144 -45;

in Palermo, 108 , 109 , 141 ;

and paper mill sale, 222 ;

and Rosa Mines, 284 ;

Segrè Chart, 190 ;

trip around globe, 282 ;

U.S. citizenship, 205 ;

and U.S. visa, 128 -29, 141 , 145

Segrè, Emilio Gino, 297 -300, 317 n.14;

birth, 2 , 12 -14, 22 ;

childhood, 1 -3, 14 -23;

cigars, 67 ;

death, 299 -300;

dress, 41 ;

Experimental Nuclear Physics , 232 , 262 ;

family background, 1 -12;

Fermi's papers and biography, 268 ;

fireworks in childhood, 18 ;

From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves , 293 , 298 ;

From X-Rays to Quarks , 281 , 298 ;

Fulbright fellowship, 239 ;

illnesses, 21 -22, 25 , 227 , 286 , 287 , 299 ;

marriage to Elfriede, 104 , 105 , 107 , 124 ;

marriage to Rosa, 288 ;

military service, 54 -55, 57 -61;

nicknames, 2 -3, 51 , 80 ;

Nobel Prize, 185 , 221 -22, 241 , 259 , 261 , 265 , 269 -73, 317 n.15;

Nuclei and Particles , 280 ;

and religion, 10 -11, 34 -36;

retirements, 283 , 288 , 290 , 291 -92, 298 ;

seventy-seventh birthday, 295 ;

sex and love before marriage, 30 -31, 37 , 42 , 51 , 71 -80, 96 -103 passim;

sports/recreation, 31 , 37 , 40 -45, 108 -9, 143 , 144 , 190 -91, 227 , 285 -86, 290 -91;

U.S. citizenship, 205 .

See also


330

Education; Finances; Physics; individual locales

Segrè, Fausta (cousin), 11 , 19 , 42 -43, 224

Segrè, Fausta Irene (daughter), 206 , 270 , 285 , 286 -87

Segrè, Francesca (granddaughter), 285

Segrè, Gino (grandson), 285 , 300

Segrè, Gino (uncle), 2 , 4 , 6 -8, 11 , 27 , 29 , 79

Segrè, Giuseppe Abramo (father), 3 , 4 , 8 -10, 20 , 22 , 141 -42, 171 , 215 -17;

cavaliere del lavoro , 225 ;

death (1944), 195 , 217 ;

eightieth birthday, 146 ;

and Elfriede, 99 , 108 , 124 ;

and Emilio's German romances, 79 , 99 ;

escape from Nazis, 214 -15;

and Fascism, 29 , 84 , 85 ;

fastidi grassi , 240 ;

on Fermi's "crumbs," 62 ;

and financial gifts for Emilio, 11 , 84 -86, 108 , 119 -20, 127 ;

and financial problems with Angelo, 147 ;

illness, 121 -22;

last visit, 129 -30;

letters to and from U.S., 148 -49;

marriage, 12 ;

and Palermo lodgings, 108 ;

and paper mill, 9 -10, 14 , 22 , 43 , 84 , 98 , 215 -16;

and Rimini orphans, 33 ;

and Rome move, 22 -23;

tomb, 215 ;

training by, 31 , 32 ;

wills, 217 , 218 , 220 -21

Segrè, Joel (grandson), 285

Segrè, Katja Schall (sister-in-law), 27

Segrè, Marco Claudio (brother), 3 , 20 , 26 , 27 -28, 30 , 213 , 222 , 253 ;

cavaliere del lavoro , 225 ;

escape from Nazis, 214 -15;

father's illness, 121 ;

father's will and, 217 , 218 , 220 -21;

and paper mill, 43 , 84 -85, 216 -21, 225

Segrè, Rosa Mines (wife), 284 , 287 -88, 290 , 294 -95, 297 -300

Segrè Chart, 190

Segrè family, 3 -10, 26 -28

Serber, Robert, 176 , 182 , 187 , 235 , 273

Sereni, Emilio, 32 , 302 n.2

Sereni, Enzo, 32 , 302 n.2

Severi, Francesco, 38 , 39 -40, 54

Siegbahn, Kai Manne, 268 , 272 , 318 n.24

Siegbahn, Karl Manne George, 268 , 318 n.24

Simili, Silvestro, 216 , 217 -19, 221

Smithsonian Institution, 134

Smorodinsky, J. A., 263

Società cartiere tiburtine (SCT). See Paper mill

Solvay conference (1933), 88

Somigliana, Carlo, 80

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 63 , 68 , 99 -100

Soviet Union: atomic bomb, 214 , 237 , 238 ;

disarmament conference, 265 ;

Hitler and, 139 -40;

Josephy in, 100 ;

1956 visit, 5 , 261 -63;

Pontecorvo in, 236 -37, 246 , 262 ;

scientists visiting Berkeley, 264

Specchia, O., 81

Special Engineering Detachment (SED), Los Alamos, 189 , 202 -3

Spectrography, 56 , 64 -65, 84 , 87 -88, 171 , 197 -98, 256

Spiess, Fred Noel, 278

Spiro, Elfriede. See Segrè, Elfriede Spiro

Spiro family, 97 , 99 , 127 , 149

Sproul, R. G., 247

Stalin, J., 139 -40

Stanford University, SLAC, 284

Stapp, Henry, 230

Stark effect, 55

Staub, Erika, 193

Staub, Hans It., 187 , 193 , 197 , 207

Stearns, Joyce C., 208

Steiner, Herbert, 264

Stern, Otto, 68 -72, 87 , 243 , 255 , 269 ;

Kuhn interviewing, 281 ;

and Lawrence's cyclotron, 112 ;

and Nobel Prize, 151

Stern Institute, 68 -72, 243 , 268 -69

Stoughton, Ray, 169

Strassmann, Fritz, 91 , 151

Strauss, Lewis, 314 n.20

Sugarman, N., 317 n.14

Superconductivity, 2 , 265

Sweden: king of, 270 ;

Stockholm, 268 , 270 -71

Switzerland, 44 -45, 85 ;

bank account, 86 , 140 , 142 ;

Basel conference, 233 ;

Breuil basin, 45 , 233 ;

Cosmic Ray Lab, 233

"Swollen atoms"/Rydberg states, 83 -84, 150 , 243

Szilard, Leo, 92 , 132 , 150 , 180 , 203

T

Tacke-Noddack, Ida W., 91 , 115 , 116 , 117 -18, 124 , 306 n.24


331

Tamm, Igor, 229 , 262 -63, 265 -66

Tarchiani, Alberto, 208

Tasso, Torquato, 121

Tata (Austrian nanny), 14 -15, 33

Taylor, Geoffrey, 192 , 197

Technetium (element 43), 116 -19, 124 , 127 , 243 , 308 n.12;

on father's tomb, 215 ;

isotopes, 116 -19, 128 , 293 -94, 308 n.11

Tel Aviv University, 283 , 298

Telegdi, Valentin, 265

Teller, Edward: in Berkeley, 176 ;

and Fermi, 63 , 251 -52;

and hydrogen bomb, 237 -38, 251 ;

at Los Alamos, 187 , 191 , 193 ;

at Oppenheimer hearings, 251 , 309 n.9

Teller, Mici, 191 , 193

Terkel, Amir (grandson), 285

Terkel, Joseph (son-in-law), 285 , 286

Terkel, Vivian (granddaughter), 285

Thomas, L. II., 135

Thomas-Fermi statistical method, 50

Thompson, Llewellyn, 214

Thompson, Stanley G., 169

Thomson, G. P., 250

Thomson, J. J., 68

Thornton, R. L., 135 , 144 , 209 , 237 , 241

Tieri, Laureto, 103

Tillman, J. R., 95

Tinkham, Michael, 234

Tissandier, Gaston, 20 , 280

Tisserand, Eugene, 214

Tivoli, 1 -2, 9 , 12 -23;

Amelia Segrè street, 23 ;

contemporary, 14 , 253 , 291 ;

Elfriede and, 232 -33;

postwar visit, 223 -24;

sulfur baths near, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291 ;

vacations, 23 , 25 , 40 , 128 ;

Villa d'Este, 1 -2, 10 , 17 -18, 31 -32, 223 , 291 ;

Villini Arnaldi, Villino B Maria, 3 , 12 -14, 23 , 253 .

See also Paper mill

Todesco, G., 103

Trabacchi, G. C., 87 , 245

Tracer technique, 115

Transuranic elements, 91 -92

Treves, Amelia. See Segrè, Amelia Susanna Treyes (mother)

Treves, Elisa Orvieto (grandmother), 10

Treves, Emilia Finzi (aunt), 2 , 11

Treyes, Giuliana (cousin), 11

Treves, Guido (uncle), 11 -12, 29 , 224 , 225

Treves, Jacopo (uncle), 11 , 14

Treves, Marcella (cousin), 11 , 19 , 225

Treves, Marco (cousin), 11 , 33

Treves, Marco (grandfather), 10 , 302 n.5

Treves, Silvia (cousin), 11 , 19 , 225 , 302 n.5

Treves family, 10 -12, 302 n.5

Treves villa (Marignolle), 10 , 19 , 29 -30, 225 , 253

Trilussa (Carlo Alberto Salustri), 127 -28

Troccoli, Signor, 89

Truman, Harry S, 203

Tulsa, oil industry, 159 -60, 237

Tumedei, Cesare, 290

Turner, L. A., 163

Tuscany, 292 -93

U

Uhlenbeck, G. E., 82 , 272

Union of Producers and Distributors of Electric Energy (UNIPEDE), 298

United Nations, 204

United States, 213 , 247 , 288 , 292 ;

AEC, 169 , 246 , 247 , 284 ;

Atomic Energy Act, 245 ;

business and nuclear energy, 245 , 314 n.20;

citizenship, 204 -5, 237 ;

disarmament conference, 265 ;

foreign aid, 283 ;

immigration law, 129 , 145 ;

Information Service, 282 ;

McMahon Act (1946), 246 ;

and patents in nuclear power, 245 -47;

State Department, 281 ;

Supreme Court, 257 ;

visas, 128 -29, 141 , 145 -46;

visit (1933), 82 -83;

visit (1935), 101 -3;

visit (1936), 111 -14;

visit (1938-1943), 128 -29, 130 , 131 -78;

White House, 281 ;

in World War II 149 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 177 -78.

See also Military; individual states, cities, and universities

Universities: Columbia, 102 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264 ;

Ibadan (Nigeria), 276 ;

Purdue, 160 -61;

Tel Aviv, 283 , 298 ;

Washington (St. Louis, Missouri), 165 , 208 , 209 .

See also University of . . .

University of California, Berkeley, 133 -78, 207 -84 passim;

Academic Senate, 275 , 277 ;

administrative work, 277 -78;

Birge tribute, 310 n.21;

committees, 275 , 277 , 280 -81;

Faculty Research


332

Lecture, 275 ;

history of science, 280 -81, 298 ;

loyalty oath, 234 -36, 238 -39, 246 ;

Nobel Prize winners' privileges, 270 , 272 ;

and patents, 246 -47;

physics, 154 -55, 161 -62, 172 -73, 230 -31, 233 -36, 243 , 280 , 283 , 288 , 310 n.21;

Regents, 234 -35, 236 , 240 , 246 , 279 ;

retirement age, 288 ;

Russians visiting, 263 -64.

See also Nuclear Physics; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley

University of Chicago, 208 , 209 ;

and anti-Semitism, 103 ;

Fermi at, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 ;

Fermi lectures, 287 ;

Fermi memorial service, 252 ;

Fermi papers, 260 ;

plutonium work, 175 -76;

Seaborg at, 175 -76, 211 ;

Telegdi at, 265

University of Chicago Press, 253

University of Ferrara, 81

University of Illinois, Urbana, 239 , 242

University of Michigan, 82 -83, 101 , 112

University of Palermo, 100 -101, 102 , 104 -30;

chair of theoretical physics, 125 -26;

honorary degree, 268 ;

politics, 105 , 106 ;

return offer, 208 ;

written examinations, 110 -11

University of Pavia, 4

University of Rome, 37 -56, 118 -19, 289 -90.

See also Physics Institute

Urey, Harold C., 161 , 167

Uruguay, 250 ;

Rimini cousins in, 146 , 148 , 174 , 221 , 250 , 284 ;

Rosa Mines in, 284

V

Vaccari, Lino, 17

Valle, C., 81

Vallery-Radot, Renè, 280

Veksler, Vladimir, 212 , 263

Verdi, G., 228

Villa d'Este, Tivoli, 1 -2, 10 , 17 -18, 31 -32, 223 , 291

Volterra, Vito, 11 , 52 -53, 54 , 63 , 115

von Neumann, John, 187 , 193 , 197

W

Wahl, Arthur C., 164 -67, 175 , 195 , 197 , 208 , 246 , 317 nn.14, 15

Warren, Earl, 234

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 164 , 208 , 209

Watson, Thomas, Jr., 240

Weak interactions, 88 , 264 -65

Weinberg, Steven, 234

Weinrich, Gabriel, 265

Weisskopf, Victor, 61 , 187 , 193

Weizsäcker, C. F. von, 137

Westcott, H. C., 93

Wheatstone, Charles, 293

Wick, Gian Carlo, 71 , 83 , 111 , 125 , 126 , 233 , 235

Wiegand, Clyde E., 242 , 260 , 261 , 270 , 316 n.9;

and antiprotons, 169 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 260 , 316 n.9;

at Berkeley, 157 , 172 , 176 , 206 , 211 , 227 , 230 , 248 , 256 , 258 , 259 , 283 ;

at Los Alamos, 178 , 189

Wigner, Eugene, 61 , 229

Williams, J. H., 188 , 201

Williams, Wynn, 93

Wilson, Robert R., 135 , 188 , 284

Wolf Prize, 265

World War I, 2 , 13 , 16 , 28

World War II, 180 -81, 207 , 222 -23;

atomic bomb, 176 -77, 179 -206, 209 ;

Bohr and, 193 -94;

"enemy aliens," 172 , 175 , 179 ;

events leading to, 79 , 92 , 103 , 132 , 139 -42;

Germany's surrender, 199 -200;

Japan's surrender, 203 ;

Pearl Harbor, 170 ;

start, 144 , 160 ;

U.S. in, 149 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 177 -78.

See also Hitler, A.

Wu, Chien-Shiung, 136 -37, 153 , 156 , 157 , 264 , 265

Y

Yang, Chen Ning, 264 , 265

York, Herbert F., 230

Ypsilantis, Tom, 230 , 248 , 256 -61 passim, 270 , 316 n.9

Yukawa, Hideki, 230

Z

Zacharias, J., 102

Zeeman, Pieter, 65 -70 passim, 84 , 99 , 293

Zeeman effect, 64 -68 passim, 83 -84, 150

Zeeman lab, 65 , 66 -67, 78 -79, 99 , 128 , 136

Zeitschrifi für Physik , 61 , 62 , 65


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