Ettore Majorana: genius and mystery
の記事が ヨーロッパの高エネルギー物理の研究所のだしている
CERN Courier にあった（クリック）。
ずいぶん長い記事だ。
Ettore Majorana was born in Sicily in 1906. An extremely gifted physicist, he was a member of Enrico Fermi's famous group in Rome in the 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing in March 1938.
神様フェルミの学生とはいわないでフェルミのグループのメンバーだと表現している。
マヨナラは行方不明になったのだが、其の同期は原爆の恐ろしさをしりその研究にはいることを自ら禁じたのだといわれている。
マヨナラ以外のフェルミやセグレなどはマンハッタン計画で
重要な枠割りをはたしていて、みな
ストレンジラヴ博士といわれている。
オッペンハイマーやファイマンもそうだろう。
加速器のトップ、フェルミラボの初代所長の
ボッブウイルソンも同様だ。
ナチのハイゼンベルグもそうだし
湯川、朝永らも同類といわれても反論できないだろう。
みんな同罪だ。
私だってその時代にいたらストレンジラヴ博士になっていた可能性も否定できない。
しかし、マヨナラ博士は違ったらしい。
以下は参考：
The great Sicilian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, was convinced that Majorana decided to disappear because he foresaw that nuclear forces would lead to nuclear explosives a million times more powerful than conventional bombs, like those that would destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sciascia came to visit me at Erice where we discussed this topic for several days. I tried to change his mind, but there was no hope. He was too absorbed by an idea that, for a writer, was simply too appealing. In retrospect, after years of reflection on our meetings, I believe that one of my assertions about Majorana's genius actually corroborated Sciascia's idea. At one point in our conversations I assured Sciascia that it would have been nearly impossible - given the state of physics in those days - for a physicist to foresee that a heavy nucleus could be broken to trigger the chain reaction of nuclear fission. Impossible for what Enrico Fermi called first-rank physicists, those who were making important inventions and discoveries, I suggested, but not for geniuses such as Majorana. Maybe this information convinced Sciascia that his idea about Majorana was not just probable, but actually true - a truth that his disappearance further corroborated.
の記事が ヨーロッパの高エネルギー物理の研究所のだしている
CERN Courier にあった（クリック）。
ずいぶん長い記事だ。
Ettore Majorana was born in Sicily in 1906. An extremely gifted physicist, he was a member of Enrico Fermi's famous group in Rome in the 1930s, before mysteriously disappearing in March 1938.
神様フェルミの学生とはいわないでフェルミのグループのメンバーだと表現している。
マヨナラは行方不明になったのだが、其の同期は原爆の恐ろしさをしりその研究にはいることを自ら禁じたのだといわれている。
マヨナラ以外のフェルミやセグレなどはマンハッタン計画で
重要な枠割りをはたしていて、みな
ストレンジラヴ博士といわれている。
オッペンハイマーやファイマンもそうだろう。
加速器のトップ、フェルミラボの初代所長の
ボッブウイルソンも同様だ。
ナチのハイゼンベルグもそうだし
湯川、朝永らも同類といわれても反論できないだろう。
みんな同罪だ。
私だってその時代にいたらストレンジラヴ博士になっていた可能性も否定できない。
しかし、マヨナラ博士は違ったらしい。
以下は参考：
The great Sicilian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, was convinced that Majorana decided to disappear because he foresaw that nuclear forces would lead to nuclear explosives a million times more powerful than conventional bombs, like those that would destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sciascia came to visit me at Erice where we discussed this topic for several days. I tried to change his mind, but there was no hope. He was too absorbed by an idea that, for a writer, was simply too appealing. In retrospect, after years of reflection on our meetings, I believe that one of my assertions about Majorana's genius actually corroborated Sciascia's idea. At one point in our conversations I assured Sciascia that it would have been nearly impossible - given the state of physics in those days - for a physicist to foresee that a heavy nucleus could be broken to trigger the chain reaction of nuclear fission. Impossible for what Enrico Fermi called first-rank physicists, those who were making important inventions and discoveries, I suggested, but not for geniuses such as Majorana. Maybe this information convinced Sciascia that his idea about Majorana was not just probable, but actually true - a truth that his disappearance further corroborated.