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T1 Ettore Majorana (1942): The Value of Statistical Lawas in Physics and the Social Sciences
A1 Allones Pérez, Carlos
K1 Ettore Majorana
K1 Last article
K1 Physical statistics
K1 Social statistics
K1 Indeterminism
K1 Sociological Commentary
AB Ettore Majorana (Catania, 1906- ?) was accepted into Enrico Fermi’s group due to his renowned talent for Physics. He spent the winter of 1933 studying with Heisenberg in Germany, when Hitler was at the height of his powers. However, the young Sicilian was also a religious man, who contemplated with horror the possibilities of nuclear fission. On his return to Italy, when Mussolini began to be interested in his work, he took a decision: in no way would he collaborate in the making of an atomic bomb. He organized his own disappearance, and he was last seen on the night of March 25th 1938 on the deck of the Naples-Palermo post-boat. Some days later, his distraught mother found, in a box in his worktable, this article, which we publish here translated into English.In addition to this translation, we provide the reader an interpretation of the life and work of Majorana and a brief sociological commentary.
YR 2025
FD 2025-03-04
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40032
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/40032
LA eng
NO Depositamos aquí, traducido al inglés, en el repositorio Minerva (USC), el artículo que, con el título: Ettore Majorana (1942): El valor de las leyes estadísticas en la Física y en las Ciencias Sociales, fue publicado originariamente en español en la revista de la UNED: Empiria, número 7, 2004, pp 183-209.[Hemos sido autorizados, por escrito de Empiria, a difundir en abierto dicha traducción al inglés, siempre y cuando se referencie que la publicación original del artículo en español se realizó en dicha revista de la UNED (Madrid)]: ISSN  1139-5737
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026