Franco Rasetti

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Italian nuclear physicist, paleontologist, and university teacher (1901-2001)

Italy ScientistsLived 1901 to 2001 · aged 100

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Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italian 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

Awards 3

1958Guggenheim Fellowship

1952Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

1931Matteucci Medal

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Robert W. WoodAlso won Matteucci Medal

Antonio PacinottiAlso won Matteucci Medal Simon Conway MorrisAlso won Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

Nicola CabibboAlso won Matteucci Medal

Henry Augustus RowlandAlso won Matteucci Medal

Preston CloudAlso won Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

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