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Emilio Segré
(1 Feb 1905 - 22 Apr 1989)

Italian-American physicist.


Science Quotes by Emilio Segré (1)

She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.
(Chien-Shiung Wu was his student.)
— Emilio Segré
Quoted in 'Queen of Physics', Newsweek (20 May 1963) no. 61, 20.
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