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  title info:
    title: Ettore Majorana: Unpublished Research Notes on Theoretical Physics
  name:
    name part: Esposito, Salvatore.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Recami, Erasmo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Merwe, Alwyn van der.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Battiston, Roberto.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: LVI, 452 p. online resource.
  abstract: The editors of this volume bring to life a major part of Ettore Majorana’s work that up to now was not accessible to the general audience. These are the contents of the Quaderni (notebooks) of Ettore Majorana, edited and translated in English. Ettore Majorana had an astounding talent for Physics that made an impression on all the colleagues who had the opportunity to know him. Enrico Fermi, who took him in his group when he was a student, ranked him with Galilei and Newton. Ettore Majorana’s career was cut short in 1938, as he mysteriously disappeared at the age of 32, leaving many unpublished works. This book reveals an interesting perspective over the points of view, the interests, the approach to physical problems of this great physicist and it shows that he had advanced his comprehension of physics to levels that were only reached by other physicists ten years after, or even later. The editors have inserted minimal text, in order to leave the original calculations by Majorana intact, and at the same time help the reader when the formalism had been left unexplained. The preface to this book provides fascinating reflections on the life and pioneering work of this exceptional physicist, placing it in the context of the physical discoveries of the following years. This book will have considerable interests to all those interested in the development of the history of Physics. Audience: Theoretical physicists and scholars interested in the history of Physics.
  table of contents: I -- Dirac Theory -- Quantum Electrodynamics -- II -- Atomic Physics -- Molecular Physics -- Statistical Mechanics -- III -- The Theory of Scattering -- Nuclear Physics -- IV -- Classical Physics -- Mathematical Physics.
  note: edited by Salvatore Esposito, Erasmo Recami, Alwyn van der Merwe, Roberto Battiston.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear physics
  subject:
    topic: Heavy ions
  subject:
    topic: Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: Atoms
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Methods in Physics
  classification: QC770-798
  classification: QC702.7.H42
  classification: QC793.5.H32-793.5.H329
  classification: 539.7092
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 159
  identifier: 9781402091148
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9114-8
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