A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age /
Magueijo, João.
New York : Basic Books,
c2009.
A theoretical physicist reveals one of the greatest untold stories of 20th-century science: the tormented genius Ettore Majorana, who discovered a key element of atomic fission, then disappeared and was never seen again.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : a moment of fatigue or moral discomfort -- Life : the grand inquisitor. The attic of 251 Via Etnea -- Nuclear crisis -- Frankenstein's youth -- Poltergeist exposed -- Bread and sperm -- Strong interactions -- Meet Ettore Majorana -- Boys will be boys -- Neutrinos from Transylvania -- Ode to the vanquished -- Creation and annihilation -- The serpent's egg -- His unfinished symphony -- The hand that rocks the cradle -- Stellar collapse -- Artichokes -- Meanwhile, at Via Panisperna -- The crepuscule of Via Panisperna -- Ettore's neutrino -- The quiet before the storm -- The search party -- Afterlife : the dark matter. Pagliacci -- A pirandellian intermezzo -- Don't cry for him, Argentina -- They thought the sun was sick -- The sign of the beast -- Ettore Majorana -- A vote of silence -- Epilogue : Mediterranean whales.
A theoretical physicist reveals one of the greatest untold stories of 20th-century science: the tormented genius Ettore Majorana, who discovered a key element of atomic fission, then disappeared and was never seen again.
Majorana, Ettore.
Majorana, Ettore
Nuclear physicists
Physics
Neutrinos.