Italian physicist from a Sephardic Jewish family who co-discovered technetium, fled Fascist Italy's racial laws, worked on the Manhattan Project, and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the antiproton.
Physicist · 1905–1989
Italian physicist from a Sephardic Jewish family who co-discovered technetium, fled Fascist Italy's racial laws, worked on the Manhattan Project, and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the antiproton.
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