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

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

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