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Author	Magueijo, João.
Title	A brilliant darkness : the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age / João Magueijo.
Publication Info.	New York : Basic Books, c2009.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 7	92 M2348 M	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxi, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue : a moment of fatigue or moral discomfort -- Life : the grand inquisitor. The attic of 251 Via Etnea -- 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.
Subject	Majorana, Ettore.
	Majorana, Ettore -- Legends.
	Nuclear physicists -- Italy -- Biography.
	Physics -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
	Neutrinos.
Added Title	Extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age
ISBN	9780465009039 (alk. paper)
	0465009034 (alk. paper)

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