Ettore Majorana's Scientific (and Human) Personality
Erasmo Recami

TL;DR
This paper explores Ettore Majorana's scientific achievements and personal life, emphasizing his significance in physics, his mysterious disappearance, and the unpublished manuscripts he left behind, based on extensive historical research.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of Majorana's main publications, life, and unpublished works, combining biographical data with scientific analysis for the first time.
Findings
Majorana was a pioneering Italian theoretical physicist.
His unpublished manuscripts contain valuable scientific insights.
Majorana's life and work significantly influenced modern physics.
Abstract
This article, in English, represents part of the invited talk delivered by the author at the "Internat.Conf.Majorana Legacy and Phys. XXI century" held at Dep. of Phys.,University of Catania, Italy, in Oct.2006: Conference organized for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth (in Catania) of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana; probably the brightest Italian theoretician of the XX century (Enrico Fermi regarded him as the brightest in the world of his time), even if to some people Majorana is still known chiefly for his mysterious disappearance, in 1938, when he was 31. In this writing we outline the significance of his main publications, as well as his life: The biographical data being based on letters, documents, testimonies discovered or collected by the author during almost 30 years, and contained in the book by E.Recami, "Il Caso Majorana: Epistolario,…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTwentieth Century Scientific Developments · Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
