Ettore Majorana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ettore Majorana

Italian physicist

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1906

Place of Birth: Catania, Sicily, Italy

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1938

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ettore Majorana (, , Italian: ['?ttore majo'ra?na]; born on 5 August 1906 – probably died after 1959) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses.
On March 25, 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples.
The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.