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. August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... For the generation of electrical power by fission, see Nuclear power plant An induced nuclear fission event. ... This page is about the World War II nuclear project. ...

Rasetti was born in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. In 1947, he went to the United States and, in 1952 he became a naturalized citizen. Castiglione del Lago is a town with a population of 14,186 (2001) people in the Province of Perugia of Umbria, on the southwest corner of Lake Trasimeno. ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...

Rasetti was also an expert on trilobite fossils and on wildflowers in the Alps. He died in Waremme, Belgium at the age of 100. Orders Agnostida Nectaspida Redlichiida Corynexochida Lichida Phacopida Subclass: Librostoma Proetida Asaphida Harpetida Ptychopariida For the robot vacuum cleaner, see Electrolux Trilobite. ... FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under DOS. FOSSIL is an acronym for Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Waremme municipality in the province Liège Waremme (Dutch: Borgworm) is a Walloon municipality located in the province of Liège, in Belgium. ...

Awards

• 1952, awarded the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal by the National Academy of Sciences

Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal is an award given out by the National Academy of Sciences every five years to stimulate research in Precambrian or Cambrian life and history. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ...

External links

• Caltech oral history interview

http://www.fossilhut.com/DIRT/rolf_ludvigsen/TP14.htm (Obituary in Trilobite Papers 14 Denman Institute for Research on Trilobites)