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Contents 1 About the Emilio Segrè Internship 2 Honoring Emilio Segrè 3 How to Apply for a Segrè Internship 4 History of the Segrè Internship 4.1 2008 4.2 2007 4.3 2006 4.4 2005 4.5 2004 4.6 2003

About the Emilio Segrè Internship

Since 1995, the Physics Department has offered a summer internship for Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students to learn research techniques as they work to improve the Physics 111 Advanced Lab and Basic Semiconductor Circuits course. Interns collaborate with faculty and staff for eight weeks in the summer to improve experiments and develop new ones. Their responsibilities include:

• researching the underlying physics of the experiments
• participating in building apparatus
• programming computers to acquire data and control experiments,
• testing and trouble-shooting experiments

Interns also provide valuable input by contributing to the write-ups for the experiments.

This program benefits both the student interns and all students who take the Physics 111 course. Interns learn in-depth about the experiments they work on, gain skills in building the apparatus and testing complex systems as they would in a research lab, and build confidence in their ability to do science. In the Physics 111 lab, virtually every experiment has been influenced by the hard work of these interns, who provide the perspective only a student can give on how to make an experiment understandable, meaningful, and feasible for students taking the course. The quality of this course absolutely depends on the participation of students in development of experiments.

The Physics Department gratefully acknowledges the generous gifts of Douglas C. Giancoli that have made this internship possible.

Honoring Emilio Segrè

This award is given in memory of Emilio Segrè (1905-1989). Born in 1905, Segrè was the first student to earn his doctoral degree under the sponsorship of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, his friend and collaborator for more than three decades. Upon immigrating to this country in 1938 (he later became an U.S. citizen), Segrè accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he commenced one of his most productive periods in nuclear physics, working with Glenn Seaborg, a chemistry professor, on methods of separating nuclear isomers. In the period following World War II, the anti-proton, an atomic particle that sought to prove nature’s symmetry still eluded scientists. In 1955, using Berkeley’s powerful new cyclotron, Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè made the first observation of the anti-proton. This discovery signaled a major leap in the study of matter and anti-matter. Emilio G. Segrè received the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work with Anti-Protons.

For a delightful biographical sketch of Emilio Segrè by UC Berkeley Professor J. David Jackson, see the National Academies Press site.

How to Apply for a Segrè Internship

Applications from current UC Physics undergraduate and graduate students are accepted in April-May of each year. Your application should be submitted by the deadline of April 26th. When it becomes available, download the flyer and application form (see 2010 form for reference), fill out the application, and submit it to Don Orlando in the Physics 111 lab.

History of the Segrè Internship

2008

Marjon Moulai, Tyler Draeger

Development and testing of the Optical Trapping experiment, rebuilding Muon Lifetime Experiment to replace analog signal processing with all digital processing and analysis, upgrading Compton Experiment, testing and revising Brownian Motion in Cells experiment.

2007

Diana Lee, Nicholas Ravn

Assembly and testing of magnet and cooling circuits for Atom Trapping experiment, relocation of Brownian Motion in Cells setup and setup of new Optical Trapping station, developing of new wiki for advanced lab writeups.

2006

Hector Cota, Nathan Kamphuis

Building the infrastructure for the new atom trapping experiment, researching and testing Brownian Motion in Cells experiment, redesign of Josephson Effect experiment

2005

Daniel Queens, Nathan Kamphuis

2004

Winthrop Williams, Evan Wolf

2003

Evan Wolf,