[S66] INFN — Recami, Scientific and Human Personality (POS SISSA) [PDF]

PoS(EMC2006)016 Ettore Majorana: His Scientific and Human Personality Erasmo Recami ∗ Università statale di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; and INFN-Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy E-mail: r ecami@mi.infn.it This article reports part of the invited talk delivered by the author at the “International Conference on Majorana Legacy" held at the Department of Physics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, on 5 and 6 Octorber, 2006: Conference organized for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Italian theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana; probably the brightest Italian theoretician of the XX century (Enrico Fermi regarded him as the brightest in the world of his time), even if to many people Majorana is still known mainly for his misterious disappearance, in 1938, when he was…