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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 64,511 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Franco Rasetti is the 608th most popular physicist (down from 596th in 2019), the 3,263rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,036th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Franco Rasetti ranks 608 out of 717Before him are Heinrich Kayser, Evelyn Fox Keller, Adriaan Fokker, Theodore Lyman IV, Walther Müller, and Paul Scherrer. After him are Ali Javan, Tullio Regge, Ralph Kronig, Mario Livio, Harold Brown, and Toshiko Yuasa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Franco Rasetti ranks 218Before him are Gaston Waringhien, Sergey Obraztsov, Max Lorenz, Lajos Dinnyés, Suzanne Lilar, and Bud Houser. After him are Hermann Josef Abs, Charles Stark Draper, Ramón J. Sender, Igor Ilyinsky, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, and Sid Atkinson. Among people deceased in 2001, Franco Rasetti ranks 201Before him are Yuri Ozerov, Jean Richard, Betty Holberton, Sivaji Ganesan, Gerhard Stoltenberg, and Ranko Marinković. After him are Alberto Gallardo, Stanislav Rostotsky, Mario Perazzolo, Boris Rybakov, Salahuddin of Selangor, and Juan Acuña.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Rasetti ranks 3,263 out of 4,668Before him are Errico Petrella (1813), Teo Fabi (1955), Alessandro Safina (1963), Pino Cerami (1922), Franco Trappoli (1947), and Salvatore Sirigu (1987). After him are Roberto Saviano (1979), Vittorio De Seta (1923), Davide Astori (1987), Daniele Gatti (1961), Tullio Regge (1931), and Luigi Di Biagio (1971).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Franco Rasetti ranks 32Before him are Carlo Rovelli (1956), Augusto Righi (1850), Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Giuseppe Occhialini (1907), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), and Giovanni Giorgi (1871). After him are Tullio Regge (1931), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Bruno Zumino (1923), and Gian Francesco Giudice (1961).