Oscar D'Agostino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian chemist
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Place of Birth: Avellino, Campania, Italy
About Oscar D'Agostino
- Oscar D'Agostino (29 August 1901 – 16 March 1975) was an Italian chemist and one of the so-called Via Panisperna boys, the group of young scientists led by Enrico Fermi: all of them were physicists, except for D'Agostino, who was a chemist. In 1934 he contributed to Fermi's experiment (that gave Fermi the possibility to win the Nobel Prize in 1938) to showing the properties of slow neutrons.
- That led the way to the discovery of nuclear fission, and later on to the construction of the first atomic bomb.
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