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Ettore Majorana

Italian physicist (1906-1938?)

1906 - 1959

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His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2024). Ettore Majorana is the 226th most popular physicist (up from 289th in 2024), the 851st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,263rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Physicist.

Ettore Majorana was an Italian physicist who disappeared in 1938. Majorana is most famous for his proposal of the Majorana particle, a particle that is its own antiparticle.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Ettore Majorana ranks 226 out of 851. Before him are Roy J. Glauber, Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, and Makoto Kobayashi. After him are Alexander Prokhorov, Frederick Reines, Klaus Fuchs, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ettore Majorana ranks 49. Before him are Alexey Stakhanov, Wassily Leontief, Max Delbrück, Dino Buzzati, Klaus Mann, and Albert Sabin. After him are Empress Wanrong, John Huston, Lon Chaney Jr., Marie José of Belgium, Hans Asperger, and Philip Johnson. Among people deceased in 1959, Ettore Majorana ranks 22. Before him are D. F. Malan, William Halsey Jr., Shirō Ishii, Camilo Cienfuegos, George Grosz, and Errol Flynn. After him are Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Buddy Holly, Alfred Schütz, Ritchie Valens, William D. Leahy, and Ernest Bloch.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ettore Majorana ranks 851 out of NaN. Before him are Marcus Atilius Regulus (-299), Luciano Berio (1925), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Giovanna of Italy (1907), Vannozza dei Cattanei (1442), and Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (1900). After him are Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Baldassare Peruzzi (1481), Pietro Metastasio (1698), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), Vittoria Colonna (1490), and Isabella d'Este (1474).

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Among Physicists In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Ettore Majorana ranks 8. Before him are Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Emilio Segrè (1905), Laura Bassi (1711), and Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618). After him are Carlo Rubbia (1934), Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giovanni Battista Amici (1786), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Giorgio Parisi (1948), and Galileo Ferraris (1847).

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