Robert Strupp’s Reviews > A Brilliant Darkness: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age > Status Update

João Magueijo the Portuguese theoretical physics professor who wrote the book has included drawings and explanations of very complicated atomic reactions. As I read on, I sorta, kinda, tiny bit maybe understand a little more of quantum physics. I think I have a book on the Boson article that I may read next. Ettore Majorana was born in Sicily that has been forever run by the mafia. Sad.

"Niels Bohr a national hero in Denmark..." Ettore wrote "...to describe how Bohr had invited him to his home, which, like the Copenhagen Institute, was paid for by Carlsberg [beer]. The house was surrounded by such mountains of kegs that Ettore couldn't find the entrance--he needed Bohr's assistance to find the path thru the beer labyrinth...much of the early research on quantum physics was sponsored by Carlsberg."

Marconi, inventor of radio "...half-Irish, from the whiskey-producing family Jameson, but made more Italian by being a personal friend of Mussolini [fascist premiere of WWII Italy] and rumored to be working on a death ray capable of instantly carbonizing hordes of black undesirables in Abyssinia [Ethiopia]... [Ettore] "His talent looked supernatural, and he scared the shit out of them--especially [Enrico] Fermi."

Interesting. You'd think it would be as dry as dust, but it's interesting.