Franco Rasetti
Franco Rasetti (1901 - December 5, 2001). 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.
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Lord Byron's many loves, I should be at this moment in a cloister.
shall know me. I feel within me something that is sublime, of
roots of that Alpine flower born on the summits of which I speak,
see it die. No, that glorious flower-cup, single in its beauty,
vulgarities of life! it is yours--yours, before any eye has
thoughts,--all, those that are secret, those that are gayest; my
you should personally not please me, I shall never marry. I can
sentiments; they please me, and I will always be what I am/am.html">am/am.html">am, your
have appreciated it, and that suffices me. In that is all my
not from the thought of being some day the old companion of a
his judgment and a source of his wealth. This handmaiden--so
pure, disinterested friendship, to whom you will tell all, who
the lamp and waits to be present when the poet returns home soaked
find that of a happy wife attached forever to her husband; I smile
any the worse if Mademoiselle d'Este does not give it two or three
for me, I shall never be an old maid. I shall make myself a
the existence of a great man.html">man, to whom also I shall carry all my
am rich (and I know that I am young and pretty), I will never
France, nor to a merchant who could ruin himself and me in a day,
household, nor to a man of any kind who would make me blush.
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