REFERENCES
The literature on Ettore’s life and work is long and repetitive. Below is what I like best:
Amaldi, Edoardo. “Ricordo di Ettore Majorana,” Giornale di Fisica, Bologna, 1968.
Amaldi, Edoardo. La Vita e l’Opera di Ettore Majorana. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 1966.
Castellani, Leandro. Mistero Majorana: l’Ultima Verità. Florence: Editrice Clinamen, 2006.
Guerra, Francesco and Nadia Robotti. Ettore Majorana: Aspects of His Scientific and Academic Activity. Pisa: Edizione della Normale, 2008.
Recami, Erasmo. Il Caso Majorana: Epistolario, Documenti, Testimonianze. Rome: Di Renzo Editore, 2002.
Russo, Bruno. Ettore Majorana: Un Giorno di Marzo. Palermo: Flaccovio Editore, 1997.
Sciascia, Leonardo. La Scomparsa di Majorana. Milano: Adelphi Edizione, 1997. (English edition: The Moro Affair and The Mystery of Majorana. New York: New York Review Books, 1987.)
I used extensively the following biographies of other characters in this story:
Farmelo, Graham. The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius. London: Faber and Faber, 2009.
Fermi, Laura. Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi, Designer of the First Atomic Pile. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1955.
Moore, Walter. Schrödinger: Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Pontecorvo, Bruno. Fermi e la Fisica Moderna. Rome: Editori Riuniti, 1972.
Segrè, Emilio. Enrico Fermi, Physicist. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Other books used for biographic content but also for their scientific component are:
Judson, Horace Freeland. The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology. London: Penguin Books, 1979.
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Sutton, Christine. Spaceship Neutrino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
The following TV documentaries are highly recommended:
Ettore Majorana: Un Giorno di Marzo, Rai III Sicilia, 1990, by Bruno Russo.
Hitler’s Bomb, BBC II Horizon, 1992, by David Sington.
Project Poltergeist, BBC II Horizon, Dox Productions, 2004, by David Sington.
Sulle Tracce di Majorana, Canale Cinque, 1987, by Salvo Ponz de Leon.
Works of fiction that became entangled with this book include:
Amis, Martin. Time’s Arrow. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
Camilleri, Andrea. La Paura di Montalbano. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2002. Camilleri, Andrea. La Scomparsa di Patò. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2000.
London, Jack. Martin Eden. London: Penguin Classics, 1987.
Pirandello, Luigi. Il Fu Mattia Pascal. Milano: Garzanti, 1993. (English edition: The Late Mattia Pascal. New York: New York Review Books, 1964.)
Pirandello, Luigi. Uno, Nessuno e Centomila. Padova: Rusconi Libri, 2007. (English edition: One, No one, and One Hundred Thousand. New York: Marsilo Publishers, 1992.)
Sciascia, Leonardo. A Ciascuno il Suo. Milano: Adelphi, 1987.
I paraphrased from memory (no doubt with some reworking by my imagination) several
scenes from the film I Ragazzi di Via Panisperna, Urania Film/Beta Film/RaiUno Italia,
1989, directed by Gianni Amelio. I strongly recommend the original. Finally, of the many interventions Ettore has had in the Italian “subculture,” I can only
recommend the following:
Lazarus Ledd: Tra le Ombre (number 97), Perugia: Edizioni StarComics (Italia), 2001.
Martin Mystère: Il Caso Majorana (number 191), and La pietra di Jivaka (number 192), Milano: Sergio Bonelli Editore, 1998.
But then, I warn you, I’m addicted to Italian comics.