Leonardo Vetra

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Leonardo Vetra is a fictional character in the 2000 novel Angels and Demons. Leonardo was a scientist that was working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Before joing CERN, Leonardo was a priest and often attended Vittoria's orphanage. Leonardo was obsessed with Galileo Galilei's work and decided to join CERN inorder to merge both Religion and Science together. When Leonardo got a request to work at CERN, he adopted Vittoria and both of them moved to Geneva, Switzerland.

Both Vittoria and Leonardo became physicists and were often involved in each others work. Vittoria and Leonardo created the substance antimatter from nothing and Leonardo achieved what he set out to do by proving that something can be created from nothing. Leonardo took this new invention and method seriously and upgraded security into the lab by adding retina scanners for Vittoria and himself. Leonardo and Vittoria secretly mass produced a large amount of antimatter and kept every CERN employee in the dark. When Leonardo was murdered by the Hassassin who also stole the antimatter, it was revealed to Maximilian Kohler the true cause of Vetra's murder.