Franco Rasetti
Franco Dino Rasetti (
August 10,
1901 -
December 5,
2001) was an Italian scientist. Together with
Enrico Fermi, discovered key processes leading to
nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the
Manhattan Project, however, on moral grounds.
Rasetti was also an expert on trilobite fossils and on wildflowers in the Alps. He died in Belgium at the age of 100.