{"id":25962,"date":"2025-11-26T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/?p=25962"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:52:27","slug":"gerald-segal-chemistry-professor-and-former-dean-of-usc-dornsife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/gerald-segal-chemistry-professor-and-former-dean-of-usc-dornsife\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Gerald Segal, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former USC Dornsife dean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-top-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-top-1920x1080.jpg 1920w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-top-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-top-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Photo of Gerald Segal seated on desk.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Segal&#8217;s successful recruitment of the late George Olah to the College led to USC&#8217;s first Nobel in 1994, when Olah was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Images: Courtesy of the Segal family.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>In Memoriam: Gerald Segal, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former USC Dornsife dean<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Segal facilitated the creation of USC Dornsife\u2019s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and recruited multiple scientists to the College who would go on to win Nobel Prizes.\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Margaret Crable<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">November 26, 2025<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gerald \u201cJerry\u201d Arthur Segal, professor emeritus of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences died September 24. He was 90. Segal served as dean of the College from 1989 to 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal\u2019s research focused on developing new ways to better understand how molecules behave at the atomic level. As a postdoctoral student, he conducted research under theoretical chemist John Pople, work that would lead to a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Pople.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal was born in 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Samual Segal, a pharmacist who ran a chain of drug stores, and Anne Weinberg, a homemaker. A children\u2019s chemistry set gifted to him by his father sparked a lifelong interest in science, as well as an enthusiasm for pursuing new things with inventiveness and curiosity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was interested in how things were made, how the world could be measured and how the world could be understood through analysis. This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trait also expressed itself through hobbies like cooking, carpentry, rock climbing, and opera<\/span><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d says his son Alexander Segal. \u201cHe was a romantic in a scientific world. This aspect allowed him a sort freedom found in what could be called \u2018rational creativity.\u2019&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25986\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25986 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storya-500x351.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Gerald Segal.\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storya-500x351.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storya-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storya.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An avid reader, Segal also enjoyed cooking, carpentry, and other hobbies in which he could flex his creative muscles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>A curious mind<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal completed his bachelor\u2019s degree at Amherst College in\u00a0 1956. After graduation, he returned to Pittsburgh to help with the family business. Sales and business management ultimately weren\u2019t of much interest however, so he enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a medical degree. He soon discovered an aptitude for chemistry and switched majors, completing his PhD in 1966.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow from 1966-67, Segal continued his studies under Pople, who was then at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Together, Segal and Pople wrote several papers that remained some of the most-cited papers in their field for decades. Pople was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/chemistry\/1998\/summary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1988<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, alongside fellow chemist and physicist Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara, for advancing the understanding of the electronic properties of materials.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal joined the chemistry department at USC Dornsife in 1967, becoming a full professor in 1976. In 1973 he was a senior Fulbright fellow at the University of Orsay in Paris, France. Starting in 1983, Segal served two years as chair of the chemistry department. In 1989, Segal became dean of USC Dornsife. He stepped down as dean in 1993 and retired from USC Dornsife in 1998.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn terms of his contributions to science, it wasn\u2019t just the papers he wrote but also the leadership he provided and the standards he upheld. He didn\u2019t just vote for tenure because someone was a good person, he expected much of their academic work as well,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/curt-wittig\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curt Whittig,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Paul A. Miller Professor of Letters, Arts and Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Star finder<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his years with the college, Segal demonstrated a knack for identifying and recruiting exceptional scientists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 1970s, Segal met the late <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/in-memoriam-nobel-laureate-george-olah-89\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George Olah<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at a science conference. Then at Case Western Reserve, Olah was conducting cutting-edge hydrocarbon research. This was of particular interest in an era plagued by sky-high gas prices due to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1969-1976\/oil-embargo\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oil Embargo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Segal set out to persuade Olah to bring his laboratory to USC but was soon met with a challenging roadblock: Olah would only move if he could bring his 17-member team with him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25965\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25965 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyb-500x341.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Gerald Segal teaching in front of a blackboard.\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyb-500x341.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyb-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyb.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Segal received the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1983.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undaunted by the complexity of such a demand, Segal secured funding and undertook the logistics for the formation of what is now the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/loker-hydrocarbon-research-institute\/research\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1979. He also convinced the late <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/in-memoriam-sidney-w-benson-93\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sydney Benson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, USC Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, who had returned to USC in 1976 from the Stanford Research Institute, to join the enterprise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe institute blossomed into a world-class research institution under the leadership of both Olah and Benson, for which Segal had laid the firm foundation,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/g-k-surya-prakash\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surya Prakash<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Professor and George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair in Hydrocarbon Chemistry who is now director of the institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In 1994, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/chemistry\/1994\/summary\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olah won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for his advancements in hydrocarbon chemistry. These helped to pave the way for less-polluting gasoline, more-effective oil refining and several modern drugs. It was USC\u2019s first Nobel Prize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1973, Segal gave a talk at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. There, he met <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/arieh-warshel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arieh Warshel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Segal was impressed by the young scientist\u2019s work. When Warshel later interviewed at USC in 1975, Segal and the late <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/usc-emeritus-professor-otto-schnepp-obit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Otto Schnepp<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, emeritus professor of chemistry, played a pivotal role in helping to recruit him. Warshel would go on to win the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/arieh-warshel-wins-nobel-prize\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nobel Prize for Chemistry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2013 for developing the key principles behind computer simulations that are now indispensable in the study of chemical reactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe collaborated together on significant quantum mechanical calculations. I valued Jerry not only as a colleague but also as a friend. His loss will be felt profoundly,\u201d says Warshel.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25966\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25966\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-392x550.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Segal standing on a narrow hiking path, overlooking a cliff. \" width=\"364\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-392x550.jpg 392w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-768x1077.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-500x700.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc-900x1260.jpg 900w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/11\/segal-obit-in-storyc.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Segal&#8217;s adventures in hiking, ice-climbing and skiing took him to locales like the Himalayas and other remote areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>A life of adventure<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal enjoyed teaching students, particularly freshmen. In one memorable classroom demonstration, he tossed a small ball of frozen liquid nitrogen at a back wall, expecting it to shatter. Instead, the ball punched through the wall entirely, eliciting a sea of giggles from the class. He \u200b\u200breceived the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1983 and the USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award in 1986.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segal married Valerie Gordon in 1959. They divorced in 1979, and in 1982, he married Karen Segal, former director of general studies at USC Dornsife. Segal is survived by Karen, four children, two step-children and 13 grandchildren.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He liked to test himself against nature and would often take the whole family along on his adventures. They\u2019d hike the narrow trails of Italy\u2019s Dolomites or ski down the Cornice precipice at Mammoth Mountain, with Segal always in the lead. It was yet another way for him to put his curiosity to work, says his son.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe looked at challenges with a creatively broad eye. 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