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Ettore Majorana

1906 - 1959

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Ettore Majorana (, Italian: [ˈɛttore majoˈraːna]; born on 5 August 1906 – likely dying in or after 1959) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Naples to Palermo. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ettore Majorana has received more than 692,243 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ettore Majorana is the 288th most popular physicist (down from 239th in 2019), the 1,263rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,083rd in 2019) and the 9th 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 288 out of 851. Before him are Victor Weisskopf, Walter Kohn, Anthony James Leggett, Steven Chu, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and Christoph Scheiner. After him are Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Friedrich Hund, Anne L'Huillier, Nevill Francis Mott, and Pascual Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Ettore Majorana ranks 62. Before him are Max Delbrück, Ernst Chain, James Hadley Chase, André Weil, Philip Johnson, and Hans Aumeier. After him are Fredric Brown, Anthony Mann, Nelson Goodman, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Luis Federico Leloir, and Douglas McGregor. Among people deceased in 1959, Ettore Majorana ranks 28. Before him are Ritchie Valens, Alfred Kubin, Raphael Lemkin, Mike Hawthorn, Mario Lanza, and Edward C. Tolman. After him are John Foster Dulles, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Wanda Landowska, Rudolf Caracciola, and Sidney Bechet.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ettore Majorana ranks 1,263 out of 5,161. Before him are Maria Cristina of Savoy (1812), Baldassare Longhena (1596), Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus (-600), Giuseppe Saragat (1898), Pietro Cavallini (1240), and Marcantonio Raimondi (1480). After him are Julia Drusilla (39), Carlo Dolci (1616), Giles of Rome (1243), Peter II of Sicily (1305), Daniela Bianchi (1942), and Cristofano Allori (1577).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Ettore Majorana ranks 9. Before him are Enrico Fermi (1901), Luigi Galvani (1737), Laura Bassi (1711), Emilio Segrè (1905), Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618), and Carlo Rubbia (1934). After him are Giovanni Battista Venturi (1746), Giorgio Parisi (1948), Bruno Pontecorvo (1913), Galileo Ferraris (1847), Carlo Matteucci (1811), and Fabiola Gianotti (1960).

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