Franco Rasetti

Franco Rasetti
Rasetti in 1984
Born(1901-08-10)August 10, 1901
Castiglione del Lago, Italy
DiedDecember 5, 2001(2001-12-05) (aged 100)
Waremme, Belgium
SpouseMarie Madeline Hennin (m. 1949)

Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist and botanist. Together with Enrico Fermi, he discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project on moral grounds.

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