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Franco Rasetti

Italian physicist

Died when: 100 years 117 days (1203 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

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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