[S63] arXiv — Ettore Majorana: his work and his life (1412.7485)

ETTORE MAJORANA: HIS WORK AND HIS LIFE April 2014 Erasmo Recami Facolt` a di Ingegneria, Universit` a statale di Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), Italy; INFN—Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy; and DMO/FEEC, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil Abstract — In this paper we present a panoramic view of the main scientific articles published by Ettore Majorana, the brightest Italian the- oretical physicist of the XX century (actually, Enrico Fermi regarded him as the brighest in the world of his time, and compared him to Galileo and Newton; even if to some people Majorana is often known mainly for his mysterious disappearance in 1938, when he was 31). Extensive informa- tion and comments are added with regard to the scientific manuscripts left unpublished by…