A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465009039)

On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand. He was never seen again. In A Brilliant Darkness, theoretical physicist Joao Magueijo tells the story of Majorana and his research group, "the Via Panisperna Boys," who discovered atomic fission in 1934. As Majorana, the most brilliant of the group, began to realize the implications of what they had found, he became increasingly unstable. Did he commit suicide that night in Palermo? Was he kidnapped? Did he stage his own death?

A Brilliant Darkness chronicles Majorana's invaluable contributions to science -- including his major discovery, the Majorana neutrino -- while revealing the truth behind his fascinating and tragic life.

Author: Joao Magueijo
ISBN-10: 0465009034
ISBN-13: 9780465009039
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.40w x 1.02d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2009 pg. 42
Library Journal 11/01/2009 pg. 87
Booklist 12/15/2009 pg. 6
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/08/2010 pg. 18
Choice 06/01/2010
Scitech Book News 03/01/2010 pg. 35