PHYSICIST

Franco Rasetti

1901 - 2001

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Rasetti has received more than 70,103 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Franco Rasetti is the 585th most popular physicist (up from 608th in 2019), the 3,287th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,253rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Franco Rasetti ranks 585 out of 851. Before him are Dirk Coster, Giuseppe Occhialini, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Charles W. Misner, José Celestino Mutis, and Yakov Frenkel. After him are William D. Coolidge, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, Sergey Kapitsa, John Robison, and Prosper-René Blondlot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Franco Rasetti ranks 202. Before him are Alfred Müller-Armack, Claude Aveline, Hugo Haas, Franz Konwitschny, René Dubos, and Alexandre Alexeieff. After him are Michael Oakeshott, Erich Ollenhauer, Gaston Waringhien, Valerian Pidmohylny, Lajos Dinnyés, and Frederick Loewe. Among people deceased in 2001, Franco Rasetti ranks 189. Before him are Charles Régnier, Ardito Desio, Jan Kott, Jutta Rüdiger, Maria Gorokhovskaya, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. After him are Betty Holberton, Édouard Artigas, Anne Haney, Vasily Abaev, Arturo Uslar Pietri, and John C. Lilly.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Rasetti ranks 3,287 out of 5,161. Before him are Domenico Bartolucci (1917), Marino Basso (1945), Walter Veltroni (1955), Dalila Di Lazzaro (1953), Francesco Laparelli (1521), and Publius Sempronius Tuditanus (-300). After him are Nilla Pizzi (1919), Luigi Simoni (1939), Giacomo Biffi (1928), Alois Riehl (1844), Gianluigi Donnarumma (1999), and Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Franco Rasetti ranks 32. Before him are Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Macedonio Melloni (1798), Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), and Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847). After him are Bruno Zumino (1923), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Tullio Regge (1931), Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (1865), Gian Francesco Giudice (1961), and Philip Kim (1967).

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