The Real Majorana Case Is Not His Disappearance: It Is Antimatter

For many people, Ettore Majorana remains the Italian physicist who disappeared in 1938. For contemporary physics, however, the real “Majorana case” concerns a 1937 paper that still guides research today on the neutrino, antimatter, and the possibility that matter may not be, in an absolute sense, “forever”. We discuss this with Francesco Vissani, research director at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and creator of the Asimov Prize for scientific communication in upper secondary schools. By Andrea Monti – Originally published in MIT Technology Review Italia. Continue reading “The Real Majorana Case Is Not His Disappearance: It Is Antimatter”