'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style,
and concatenates a great deal of material. A text that could only
be written by those who know the life and work of Ettore Majorana
very well, as Prof Recami. The book traces the extraordinary life
of Ettore Majorana - through his letters, documents and several
testimonies from his friends and family members. What makes it more
fascinating is that the author presented it also as a
detective-story, by exploring his mysterious disappearance at young
age. The personal testimonies also give to the book a welcome
surplus. The Majorana Case, therefore, is both a pleasant biography
and a mystery book.'Contemporary PhysicsEttore Majorana was born in
the Sicilian city of Catania. He joined Enrico Fermi's 'Via
Panisperna boys' at an early age and was part of the team who first
discovered the slow neutrons (the research that would lead to the
nuclear reactor and eventually, the atomic bomb). Enrico Fermi
considered him one of brightest scientists, comparable to Galileo
and Newton.On March 25, 1938, Ettore Majorana mysteriously
disappeared at 31. When the author moved to the University of
Catania, Sicily, from Milan University back in 1968, he soon
discovered important documents pertaining to Majorana's life and
works. Together with his own investigative materials and full
cooperation from Majorana's family members, he published a book on
his disappearance in Italian (after having helped the famous
Italian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, to write down his known Essay,
by supplying him with copy of some of the discovered documents).
Recami's book was entitled Il Caso Majorana - Epistolario,
Documenti, Testimonianze and when it first appeared in Italy, it
drew interest from all the major newspapers, publications and TVs
& broadcast media.Even after his disappearance, Ettore
Majorana's name appeared in many areas of frontier physics
research, ranging from elementary particle physics to applied
condensed matter, to mathematical physics, and more. His long
lasting contributions is a testimony of his brilliance and
farsightedness and has continued to draw interest from scientists
not only in Italy, but from all over world until today.An English
version of the original is very appropriate at this juncture, when
more and more scholars in the world are getting convinced that he
was really a genius 'like Galileo and Newton'. This book traces the
extraordinary life of Ettore Majorana - through his letters,
documents and testimonies from his friends and family members. What
makes this book more fascinating (as a detective-story too) is his
mysterious disappearance at young age. This book, therefore, is
both a biography and a mystery book.
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