An edition of A brilliant darkness: the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age (2009)

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An edition of A brilliant darkness: the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age (2009)

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Basic Books
Language
English

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Subjects
Nuclear physicists, Legends, Physics, Neutrinos, Biography, History
People
Ettore Majorana
Places
Italy
Times
20th century

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A brilliant darkness: the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
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New York, NY

Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genre
Legends, Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
539.7092, B
Library of Congress
QC774.M34 M35 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23735792M
Internet Archive
brilliantdarknes0000magu
ISBN 13
9780465009039
LCCN
2009037678
OCLC/WorldCat
225874979
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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