Ettore Majorana: Notes on Theoretical Physics

Salvatore Esposito, Ettore Majorana Jr., Alwyn Van der Merwe, E. Recami (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-6435-6 (ISBN)

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HISTORICAL PRELUDE Ettore Majorana's fame solidly rests on testimonies like the following, from the evocative pen of Giuseppe Cocconi. At the request of Edoardo Amaldi, he wrote from CERN (July 18, 1965): "In January 1938, after having just graduated, I was invited, essen tially by you, to come to the Institute of Physics at the University in Rome for six months as a teaching assistant, and once I was there I would have the good fortune of joining Fermi, Bernardini (who had been given a chair at Camerino a few months earlier) and Ageno (he, too, a new graduate), in the research of the products of disintegration of /-L "mesons" (at that time called mesotrons or yukons), which are produced by cosmic rays [ . . . ] "It was actually while I was staying with Fermi in the small laboratory on the second floor, absorbed in our work, with Fermi working with a piece of Wilson's chamber (which would help to reveal mesons at the end of their range) on a lathe and me constructing a jalopy for the illumination of the chamber, using the flash produced by the explosion of an aluminum ribbon short circuited on a battery, that Ettore Majorana came in search of Fermi. I was introduced to him and we exchanged few words. A dark face. And that was it.

Volumetto I.- Volumetto II.- Volumetto III.- Volumetto IV.- Volumetto V.- Selected facsimile pages.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 133
Zusatzinfo	XXVI, 486 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Plasmaphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
ISBN-10	90-481-6435-4 / 9048164354
ISBN-13	978-90-481-6435-6 / 9789048164356
Zustand	Neuware