See Also: Segre, Emilio (Gino)(encyclopedia)
Segre 2.000, S.A., SICAV(finance)
Gino's(tourism)
Gino's Steak House(tourism)
Gino's East (Original)(tourism)
Gino's East (O'Hare)(tourism)
Gino's East (Evanston)(tourism)
Mario and Gino's Ice Cream(tourism)
Roosevelt(dictionary)
Aguinaldo, Emilio(encyclopedia)

Roosevelt, Theodore (oh) and Segre, Emilio (Gino) (sh)


Roosevelt, Theodore (oh)



(1858-1919) a US politician in the Republican Party who was the 26th president of the US, from 1901 to 1909. He became famous for his military achievements during the Spanish-American War of 1898, when he formed and led a group of soldiers called the "Rough Riders" in Cuba. During his period as president, the US organized the building of the Panama Canal, and Roosevelt described US foreign policy using the phrase "Speak softly and carry a big stick". He was informally called Teddy Roosevelt, and the teddy bear (=a soft toy bear) is named after him.

Segre, Emilio (Gino) (sh)




born Feb. 1, 1905, Tivoli, Italy
died April 22, 1989, Lafayette, Calif., U.S.

Italian-born U.S. physicist.

He worked under Enrico Fermi before becoming director of the physics laboratory at the University of Palermo in 1936. In 1937 he discovered technetium, the first man-made element not found in Nature. While visiting California in 1938, he was dismissed from the university by the fascist government. He continued his research at the University of California at Berkeley, where he and his associates discovered the element astatine and the isotope plutonium-239, which he found to be fissionable. In 1955, using the new Bevatron particle accelerator, Segre and Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920) produced and identified antiprotons, antiparticles having the same mass as protons but opposite electrical charge, setting the stage for the discovery of many additional antiparticles. The two men shared a 1959 Nobel Prize.