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 Fer­mi’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.