Ettore Majorana: Notes on Theoretical Physics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxv

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2. Volumetto I: 8 March 1927

   • Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr, Alwyn van der Merwe, Erasmo Recami

   Pages 1-83

3. Volumetto II: 23 April 1928

   • Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr, Alwyn van der Merwe, Erasmo Recami

   Pages 85-204

4. Volumetto III: 28 June 1929

   • Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr, Alwyn van der Merwe, Erasmo Recami

   Pages 205-317

5. Volumetto IV: 24 April 1930

   • Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr, Alwyn van der Merwe, Erasmo Recami

   Pages 319-417

6. Volumetto V

   • Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr, Alwyn van der Merwe, Erasmo Recami

   Pages 419-467

7. Back Matter

   Pages 469-486

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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.

• Notebooks on theoretical physics
• applied physics
• atomic physics
• physics
• theoretical physics

• University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

  Salvatore Esposito

• Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Site of Pisa, Italy

  Ettore Majorana

• University of Denver, Denver, USA

  Alwyn Merwe

• University of Bergamo, Dalmine (BG), Italy

  Erasmo Recami

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