\u201cThere are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them\u201d, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via\u00a0Panisperna boys’. His\u00a0disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling\u00a0from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred years. The Sicilian genius of theoretical physics comes alive again in\u00a0a documentary film soon to be shown in Denmark. The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen is preparing to stage an Italian cinema event, which will include a\u00a0screening of\u00a0Nessuno mi trover\u00e0<\/i>\u00a0[No one will find me], by Egidio\u00a0Eronico\u00a0with Francesco Guerra, Nadia Robotti and Ettore Majorana jr. The documentary will be shown as part of the “An Italian film a month” programme on Monday, 24 April, at 19.30. First shown in Italian cinemas last April and distributed by Istituto Luce-Cinecitt\u00e0, the film tells the story of the physicist who\u00a0disappeared on 26 March 1938, just 31 years old, leaving no trace or explanations. The mystery remains, despite the many assumptions made. The documentary film will be screened in Italian with Danish subtitles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ettore Majorana, a talented Sicilian theoretical physicist and lecturer at the Institute of Physics of the University of Naples, disappeared\u00a0in mysterious circumstances, at the age of thirty-one, on 26 March 1938. He was perhaps the greatest theoretical physicist of the twentieth century, and possibly the most well-known missing person in contemporary Italian history. His disappearance, almost eighty years ago, continues to raise questions, doubts and inquiries. His intuitions and scientific work are more topical today than when they were published. Through documents, archive images, graphic novel animations, testimonies, documentary material and conjecture, the film explores the mystery of\u00a0Ettore Majorana. Suicide? Kidnap? Escape? Through documents and imagination \u2013 following the tracks of the detailed searches carried out by Francesco Guerra and Nadia Robotti around the figure and activities of Majorana \u2013 Nessuno mi trover\u00e0<\/i>\u00a0tries to answer some if not all these questions on film, naturally without the presumption of offering certainties, but also without supporting the convenient inconsistencies of an inevitable if unsatisfactory “official truth”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them\u201d, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via\u00a0Panisperna boys’. His\u00a0disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling\u00a0from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-51478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}