|
Majorana (surname)
Majorana is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cristoforo Majorana, Italian limner and painter *Ettore Majorana (born 1906; probably died after 1959), Italian theoretical physicist *Quirino Majorana Quirino Majorana (28 October 1871 – 31 July 1957) was an Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career as professor of physics at the Universities of Rome, Turin (1916–1921), and Bologna (192 ... (1871–1957), Italian experimental physicist See also * Maiorana {{surname Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristoforo Majorana
Cristoforo Majorana (flourished c. 1480–94) was an Italian limner and painter. He was born in Naples, Italy. Majorana trained under Cola Rapicano. He produced work for Ferdinand of Aragon, Giovanni d'Aragona and Andrea Matteo Acquaviva. His work is held in the collections of the Walters Art Museum, National Library of France and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Notable works * St. Augustine, ''Commentary on the Psalms'', 1480 *Aesop, ''Fables'', 1481 *Virgil, ''Aeneid'', ''Eclogues'', and ''Georgics'', 1482-94 *Ptolemy, ''Geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and ...'' Gallery File:Cristoforo Majorana - Leaf from Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid - Walters W40055R - Open Obverse.jpg, ''Leaf from Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid'', ca. 1470 References External links Shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ettore Majorana
Ettore Majorana (,, uploaded 19 April 2013, retrieved 14 December 2019 ; born on 5 August 1906 – possibly dying after 1959) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On 25 March 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances after purchasing a ticket to travel by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory. Life and work In 1938, Enrico Fermi was quoted as saying about Majorana: "There are several categories of scientists in the world; those of second or third rank do their best but never get very far. Then there is the first rank, those who make important discoveries, fundamental to scientific progress. But then there are the geniuses, like Galilei and Newton. Majorana was one of these." Gifted in mathematics Majorana was born in Catania, Sicily. Mathematically gifted, he was very young when he joined Enrico Fermi's team in Rome a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quirino Majorana
Quirino Majorana (28 October 1871 – 31 July 1957) was an Italian experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career as professor of physics at the Universities of Rome, Turin (1916–1921), and Bologna (1921–1934). Work Majorana performed a long series of very sensitive gravity shielding experiments from 1918 to 1922, which have never been reproduced. Majorana's experiments determined that mercury or lead around a suspended lead sphere acted as a screen and slightly decreased the Earth's gravitational pull. No attempts have been made to reproduce his results using the same experimental techniques. Other researchers have concluded from other data that if gravitational absorption does exist, it must be at least five orders of magnitude smaller than Majorana's experiments suggest. Critical of Albert Einstein's relativity theory, Majorana tried to disprove Einstein’s postulate on the constancy of the speed of light, but he failed, and ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maiorana
Maiorana is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bruno Maïorana (born 1966), French cartoonist * Daniel Maiorana (born c. 1977), founder of a Swedish gang * Giuliano Maiorana (born 1969), English footballer * Marcello Maiorana (died 1586), Roman Catholic prelate * Mark Maiorana (born 1956), American politician See also * Majorana Majorana may refer to: * Majorana (surname), an Italian surname * MAJORANA, a physics search for neutrinoless double-beta decay * Majorana fermion * Majorana Prize, a prize for theoretical and mathematical physics See also * Maiorana, a surna ... {{surname Latin-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
