A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
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A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
Basic Books, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Prologue : a moment of fatigue or moral discomfort
- Life : the grand inquisitor
- The attic of Via Etnea 251
- Nuclear crisis
- Frankenstein's youth
- Poltergeist exposed
- Bread and sperm
- Strong interactions
- Meet Ettore Majorana
- Boys will be boys
- Neutrinos from Transylvania
- Ode to the vanquished
- Creation and annihilation
- The serpent's egg
- His unfinished symphony
- The hand that rocks the cradle
- Stellar collapse
- Artichokes
- Meanwhile, at Via Panisperna
- The crepuscule of Via Panisperna
- Ettore's neutrino
- The quiet before the storm
- The search party
- Afterlife : the dark matter
- Pagliacci
- A pirandellian intermezzo
- Don't cry for him, Argentina
- They thought the sun was sick
- The sign of the beast
- Ettore Majorana
- A vote of silence
- Epilogue : Mediterranean whales
