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Ettore Majorana: Notes on Theoretical Physics

Author : Salvatore Esposito
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401701075
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana: Notes on Theoretical Physics written by Salvatore Esposito and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORICAL PRELUDE Ettore Majorana's fame solidly rests on testimonies like the following, from the evocative pen of Giuseppe Cocconi. At the request of Edoardo Amaldi, he wrote from CERN (July 18, 1965): "In January 1938, after having just graduated, I was invited, essen tially by you, to come to the Institute of Physics at the University in Rome for six months as a teaching assistant, and once I was there I would have the good fortune of joining Fermi, Bernardini (who had been given a chair at Camerino a few months earlier) and Ageno (he, too, a new graduate), in the research of the products of disintegration of /-L "mesons" (at that time called mesotrons or yukons), which are produced by cosmic rays [ . . . ] "It was actually while I was staying with Fermi in the small laboratory on the second floor, absorbed in our work, with Fermi working with a piece of Wilson's chamber (which would help to reveal mesons at the end of their range) on a lathe and me constructing a jalopy for the illumination of the chamber, using the flash produced by the explosion of an aluminum ribbon short circuited on a battery, that Ettore Majorana came in search of Fermi. I was introduced to him and we exchanged few words. A dark face. And that was it.

A Brilliant Darkness

Author : Joao Magueijo
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465020089
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book A Brilliant Darkness written by Joao Magueijo and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, "the Via Panisperna Boys," who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable. Did he commit suicide that night in Palermo? Was he kidnapped? Did he stage his own death? A Brilliant Darkness chronicles Majorana's invaluable contributions to science -- including his major discovery, the Majorana neutrino -- while revealing the truth behind his fascinating and tragic life.

The Physics of Ettore Majorana

Author : Salvatore Esposito
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107044022
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Ettore Majorana written by Salvatore Esposito and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique volume exploring Majorana's work, for graduate students and researchers interested in the history of science.

Ettore Majorana

Author : Salvatore Esposito
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319543199
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana written by Salvatore Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Galilei and Newton. In this intriguing story, the author, himself a leading expert on the work of Majorana, supplements the existing literature with new insights, anecdotes and personal accounts of contemporaries of Majorana.

Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana

Author : Luisa Cifarelli
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030235086
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana written by Luisa Cifarelli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 followed, in chronological order, by the eleven scientific papers by this great scientist, in most cases translated into English for the first time. Each paper is accompanied by a comment from an expert in the field in question. Although very few in number, Majorana's papers constitute a heritage of undeniable value and extraordinary scientific meaning, since they laid the foundations for research fields that remain topical today. With this in mind, two additional contributions on ongoing developments in these research fields are included: one on neutrino physics and the other on Majorana fermions in condensed matter. The volume closes with a note on Majorana's life until his ill-fated disappearance.

Ettore Majorana

Author : Giuseppe-Franco Bassani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540480951
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana written by Giuseppe-Franco Bassani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-05 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after his birth, Ettore Majorana is rightfully considered one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the last century. With this volume the Italian Physical Society presents a collection of Ettore Majorana's scientific papers in the original language and, for the first time -- with three exceptions -- translated into English. Each paper is then followed by a comment in English of an expert in the scientific field.

The Physics of Ettore Majorana

Author : Salvatore Esposito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107619845
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Ettore Majorana written by Salvatore Esposito and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through just a handful of papers, Ettore Majorana left an indelible mark in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science and even economics before his mysterious disappearance in 1938. It is only now that the importance of Majorana's work is being realised: Majorana fermions are intensely studied today, and his work on neutrino physics has provided possible explanations for the existence of dark matter. In this unique volume, Salvatore Esposito explores not only Majorana's known papers but, even more interestingly, unveils his unpublished works as well. These include powerful methods and results, ranging from the atomic two-centre problem, the Thomas-Fermi model and ferromagnetism to quasi-stationary states, n-component relativistic wave equations and quantum scalar electrodynamics. Featuring biographical notes and contributions from leading experts Evgeny Akhmedov and Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, this fascinating book will captivate graduate students and researchers interested in frontier science as well as in the history of science.

Majorana Case, The: Letters, Documents, Testimonies

Author : Erasmo Recami
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811207038
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Majorana Case, The: Letters, Documents, Testimonies written by Erasmo Recami and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

What Is Real?

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607372
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book What Is Real? written by Giorgio Agamben and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weil's considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real?

Ettore Majorana: Unpublished Research Notes on Theoretical Physics

Author : Salvatore Esposito
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402091133
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana: Unpublished Research Notes on Theoretical Physics written by Salvatore Esposito and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without listing his works, all of which are highly notable both for the originality of the methods utilized as well as for the importance of the results achieved, we limit ourselves to the following: Inmodernnucleartheories, thecontributionmadebythisresearcher to the introduction of the forces called ‘Majorana forces’ is universally recognized as the one, among the most fundamental, that permits us to theoretically comprehend the reasons for nuclear stability. The work of Majorana today serves as a basis for the most important research in this ?eld. In atomic physics, the merit of having resolved some of the most - tricate questions on the structure of spectra through simple and elegant considerations of symmetry is due to Majorana. Lastly, he devised a brilliant method that permits us to treat the positive and negative electron in a symmetrical way, ?nally elimin- ing the necessity to rely on the extremely arti?cial and unsatisfactory hypothesis of an in?nitely large electrical charge di?used in space, a question that had been tackled in vain by many other scholars [4].

Ettore Majorana

Author : Francesco Guerra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana written by Francesco Guerra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Ettore Majorana, a highly renowned theoretical physicist, was brief but very intense, and he disappeared in March 1938 in circumstances that still are not completely clear. This volume examines his scientific, academic and human personality.

Advances in the Interplay Between Quantum and Gravity Physics

Author : Peter G. Bergmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402005930
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Advances in the Interplay Between Quantum and Gravity Physics written by Peter G. Bergmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this XVII Course of the International School of Cosmology and Gravitation devoted to "ADVANCES IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN QUANTUM AND GRAVITY PHYSICS" we have considered different aspects of the influence of gravity on quantum systems. In order to achieve this aim, in many lectures, seminars and discussions we have strengthened the interplay between gravity and quantum systems starting from the situation in the early universe based on astrophysical observations, up to the earthly based experiments with atom interferometry for probing the structure of space-time. Thus we have had timely lectures on the quantum field and horizon of a black hole including reviews of the problem of black holes thermodynamics and entropy, quantum information, quantum black holes, quantum evaporation and Hawking radiation, recent advances in stockastic gravity. We have also discussed quantum fluctuations in inflationary universe, quantum effects and reheating after inflation, and superplanckian energies in Hawking radiation. In this regard the subject of spinors in purely affine space-time and Dirac matter according to Weyl in the generalized theory of gravitation were developed . The dualism between space-time and matter has been deeply analyzed in order to see why, for general relativity, this is an obstacle for quantization of the theory. Also canonical Gravity and Mach's principle, torsion and curvature as commutator for Quantum Gravity and Dirac Geometry of real space-time were analysed, together with the problem of 5-Dimensional Projective Unified Field theory and Multidimensional Gravity and Cosmology.

Constructive Quantum Field Theory

Author : G. Velo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Constructive Quantum Field Theory written by G. Velo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1973-12-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ettore Majorana

Author : Ettore Majorana
Publisher : SIF Edizioni Scientifiche
ISBN 13 : 9788874380312
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Ettore Majorana written by Ettore Majorana and published by SIF Edizioni Scientifiche. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume the Italian Physical Society presents a collection of Ettore Majorana's scientific papers (note scientifiche) in the original language and, for the first time - with three exceptions - translated into English. Each paper is then followed by a comment (in English) of an expert in the scientific field. Contributors to the comments are Ennio Arimondo, Nicola Cabibbo, Massimo Inguscio, Luciano Maiani, Rosario Nunzio Mantegna, Francesco Minardi, Luigi Radicati di Brozolo and Antonio Sasso. A century after his birth Ettore Majorana is rightfully considered one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the last century. This volume will be of interest to the specialists of the History of Science and to the physicists concerned with problems related to Majorana's contributions. [Présentation de l'éditeur].

Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana

Author : Luisa Cifarelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030235092
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Scientific Papers of Ettore Majorana written by Luisa Cifarelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 followed, in chronological order, by the eleven scientific papers by this great scientist, in most cases translated into English for the first time. Each paper is accompanied by a comment from an expert in the field in question. Although very few in number, Majorana's papers constitute a heritage of undeniable value and extraordinary scientific meaning, since they laid the foundations for research fields that remain topical today. With this in mind, two additional contributions on ongoing developments in these research fields are included: one on neutrino physics and the other on Majorana fermions in condensed matter. The volume closes with a note on Majorana's life until his ill-fated disappearance.

Neutrino Hunters

Author : Ray Jayawardhana
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374709424
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Neutrino Hunters written by Ray Jayawardhana and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association Science in Society Book Award One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific American Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them The incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos may hold the secret to why antimatter is so rare, how mighty stars explode as supernovae, what the universe was like just seconds after the big bang, and even the inner workings of our own planet. For more than eighty years, adventurous minds from around the world have been chasing these ghostly particles, trillions of which pass through our bodies every second. Extremely elusive and difficult to pin down, neutrinos are not unlike the brilliant and eccentric scientists who doggedly pursue them. In Neutrino Hunters, the renowned astrophysicist and award-winning writer Ray Jayawardhana takes us on a thrilling journey into the shadowy world of neutrinos and the colorful lives of those who seek them. Demystifying particle science along the way, Jayawardhana tells a detective story with cosmic implications—interweaving tales of the sharp-witted theorist Wolfgang Pauli; the troubled genius Ettore Majorana; the harbinger of the atomic age Enrico Fermi; the notorious Cold War defector Bruno Pontecorvo; and the dynamic dream team of Marie and Pierre Curie. Then there are the scientists of today who have caught the neutrino bug, and whose experimental investigations stretch from a working nickel mine in Ontario to a long tunnel through a mountain in central Italy, from a nuclear waste site in New Mexico to a bay on the South China Sea, and from Olympic-size pools deep underground to a gigantic cube of Antarctic ice—called, naturally, IceCube. As Jayawardhana recounts a captivating saga of scientific discovery and celebrates a glorious human quest, he reveals why the next decade of neutrino hunting will redefine how we think about physics, cosmology, and our lives on Earth.

A Brilliant Darkness

Author : Joao Maquejo
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781458759450
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book A Brilliant Darkness written by Joao Maquejo and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joo Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, ''the Via Panisperna Boys,'' who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable. Did he commit suicide that night in Palermo? Was he kidnapped? Did he stage his own death? A Brilliant Darkness chronicles Majorana's invaluable contributions to science - including his major discovery, the Majorana neutrino - while revealing the truth behind his fascinating and tragic life.