Gino Segrè

Gino Segrè has authored five books on the history of science: A Matter of Degrees (2002), Faust in Copenhagen (2007), Ordinary Geniuses (2011), The Pope of Physics (2016) with Bettina Hoerlin, and Unearthing Frmi's Geophysics (2021) with John Stack. The Pope of Physics was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and named a Best Book of the Year by Bloomberg; Faust in Copenhagen was a finalist for the LA Times Book prize. Segrè was born in Florence, Italy and raised there and in New York City. He is a former chair and professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania and has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Bettina Hoerlin.