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5 unusual facts about Ettore Majorana


Danilo Mainardi

Since 1973 he has directed the School of Ethology of the Scientific cultural center Ettore Majorana in Erice.

Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics

The prize is named for Italian physicist Ettore Majorana (1906–1938), a pioneer in neutrino physics and the quantum mechanics of spin.

Ettore Majorana

Solution of Majorana's equation yields particles that are their own anti-particle, now referred to as Majorana Fermions.

João Magueijo

In 2009, he published A Brilliant Darkness, an account of the life and science of vanished physicist Ettore Majorana.

Shape resonance

This quantum interference in many body system has been described using quantum mechanics by Gregor Wentzel, for the interpretation of the Auger effect, by Ettore Majorana for the dissociation processes and quasi bound states, by Ugo Fano for the atomic auto-ionization states in the continuum of helium atomic spectrum and by Victor Frederick Weisskopf.


I ragazzi di via Panisperna

The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the 1930s when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in Rome, physicist Enrico Fermi managed to involve a group of brilliant young students—Emilio, Bruno, Edoardo and Ettore (respectively, Emilio Segrè, Bruno Pontecorvo, Edoardo Amaldi and Ettore Majorana, all of whom became famous scientists)—forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great discoveries in the field of nuclear physics.


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