Physics of Ettore Majorana

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 ...