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A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
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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 an...
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.
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- Creator
- João Magueijo
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Basic Books, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465009039, 0465009034
- OCLC
- ocn225874979
- 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