Ettore Majorana: The Genius Physicist Who Vanished

Enrico Fermi ranked physicist Ettore Majorana among the rarest geniuses, alongside Galileo and Newton. In 1938, at just 31, Majorana withdrew his life savings and vanished without a trace.This episode traces his brilliant but deeply conflicted mind, his uncredited discoveries, and the decades-long mystery finally closed by forensic analysis.Deducing the neutron from the Curies' data but refusing to publishPublishing only nine papers despite world-changing insightHis 1930s fascist sympathies revealed in archival lettersThe Majorana fermion now central to quantum computing researchFacial analysis placing him alive in Venezuela in the 1950s