Franco Rasetti
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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Enrico Fermi and his research group (the Via Panisperna boys) in the courtyard of Rome University's Physics Institute in Via Panisperna, about 1934. Franco Rasetti is the second from right | |
| Born | August 10, 1901 Castiglione del Lago, Italy |
| Died | December 5, 2001 (aged 100) Waremme, Belgium |
| Spouse | Marie Madeline Hennin (m. 1949) |
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