Franco Rasetti
Italian physicist and paleontologist
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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. Wikipedia
Born: August 10, 1901, Castiglione del Lago, Italy
Died: December 5, 2001 (age 100 years), Waremme, Belgium