This biography sheds new light on the life and work of physicist Ettore Majorana (including
unpublished contributions) as well as on his mysterious disappearance in March 1938. Majorana
is held by many including Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi to have been a genius of the rank of
Galilei and Newton. In this intriguing story the author himself a leading expert on the work
of Majorana supplements the existing literature with new insights anecdotes and personal
accounts of contemporaries of Majorana.
