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the Radiation Laboratory and later a lecturer in the Physics Department. He also worked with the group at the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley that discovered plutonium.

At Los Alamos, Segré was the leader of the Radioactivity Group. Their discovery of spontaneous fission of plutonium led to the reorganization of the Los Alamos laboratory in the summer of 1944. In 1959, with Owen Chamberlain, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton. He died in 1989.