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Ettore Majorana was born on August 5, 1906, in Catania, a medium-sized city just south of Mount Etna on the east coast of Sicily. He was the fourth of five children. A prominent Italian statesman, his grandfather served terms in both chambers of the Italian parliament; it was his father, an engineer, who spotted Majorana’s talent in mathematics when he was five. Majorana excelled under his father’s instruction, and in secondary school, and then at the prestigious Jesuit college Instituto Massimilliano Massimo.
Majorana set out to become an engineer like his father, but was persuaded to study physics instead by Emilio Segrè and Enrico Fermi. He soon established himself as one of the Via Panisperna boys, Fermi’s team of physicists cloistered on the Via Panisperna in the heart of Rome. It was the Via Panisperna boys who would go on to lay some of the groundwork for nuclear fission.
Majorana made his first major discovery at 25; during his analysis of atomic spectra, he discovered autoionization, which he named spontaneous ionization. Autoionization is the spontaneous emission of an electron from the outermost shell of an excited atom, which converts the atom into a positive ion. Published in only his second paper, it was a substantial discovery.
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