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Ettore Majorana: genius and mystery
Antonino Zichichi provides a dual insight into Ettore Majorana: the genius of his many contributions to physics, and the mystery that surrounds his disappearance.
Ettore Majorana was born in Sicily in 1906. An extremely gifted physicist, he was a member of Enrico Fermi’s famous group in Rome in the 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing in March 1938.
The great Sicilian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, was convinced that Majorana decided to disappear because he foresaw that nuclear forces would lead to nuclear explosives a million times more powerful than conventional bombs, like those that would destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sciascia came to visit me at Erice where we discussed this topic for several days. I tried to change his mind, but there was no hope. He was too absorbed by an idea that, for a writer, was simply too appealing. In retrospect, after years of reflection on our meetings, I believe that one of my assertions about Majorana’s genius actually corroborated Sciascia’s idea. At one point in our conversations I a
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Ettore Majorana Unveiled Genius and Endless Mysteries
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Ettore Majorana Unveiled Genius and Endless Mysteries Translated by Laura Gentile de Fraia
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Ettore Majorana
Italian physicist (born 1906)
Ettore Majorana (,[2]Italian:[ˈɛttoremajoˈraːna]; born on 5 August 1906 – likely dying in or after 1959)[1] was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Naples to Palermo.
The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.
Life and work
In 1938, Enrico Fermi was quoted as saying about Majorana: "There are several categories of scientists in the world; those of second or third rank do their best but never get very far. Then there is the first rank, those who make important discoveries, fundamental to scientific progress. But then there are the geniuses, like Galilei and Newton. Majorana was one of these."[3]
Gifted in mathematics
Majorana was born in Catania, Sicily. Majorana's uncle Quirino Majorana also was a physicist. Mathematically gifted, Majorana began h
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