This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938. Majorana is held by many, including Nobel Laureate, Enrico Fermi, to have been a genius of the rank o…
This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including unpublished contributions), as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938. Majorana is held by many, including Nobel Laureate, Enrico Fermi, to have been a genius of the rank o…
In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the real to probability.
"Ettore Majorana m'est "tombé dessus" lorsque je commençais mes études de physique. Ce théoricien fulgurant a surgi dans l'Italie des années vingt, au moment où la physique venait d'accomplir sa révolution quantique et de découvrir l'atome. En 1937, il publia même un article pro…
"Ettore Majorana m'est "tombé dessus" lorsque je commençais mes études de physique. Ce théoricien fulgurant a surgi dans l'Italie des années vingt, au moment où la physique venait d'accomplir sa révolution quantique et de découvrir l'atome. En 1937, il publia même un article pro…
by Ritter Santini, Lea, Sciascia, Leonardo
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This book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt. It opens with a contribution by A. Zichichi that considers in depth the scientific genius of Majorana. This introductory chapter is foll…
This book presents in full the work of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana and explains its impacts, which are still being felt. It opens with a contribution by A. Zichichi that considers in depth the scientific genius of Majorana. This introductory chapter is foll…
