Ettore Majorana

Ettore Majorana was one of the most brilliant physicists of the twentieth century, praised by Enrico Fermi as a genius on par with Galileo and Newton. On the night of March 25, 1938, he boarded a ship from Palermo to Naples and vanished without a trace, leaving behind cryptic letters, unanswered questions, and a legacy that still baffles historians and scientists alike. Did he take his own life, disappear into a monastery, or flee abroad to escape the looming threat of nuclear war? In this podcast, we retrace every clue in the Majorana case: his extraordinary scientific work, the strange letters he left behind, the eyewitness sightings reported over the following decades, and the theories put forward by historians, journalists, and investigators who reopened the case decades later. A gripping journey into one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of science, for anyone who loves true stories, unsolved mysteries and Italian history.