Melania Barile nos trae a la memoria a su compatriota y genial físico Ettore Majorana a través del siguiente artículo. 

The development of Quantum Mechanics in the 1930s deeply signed the consciousness of the scientists and their conception of Nature, changing their perspective towards the investigation of phenomena. But the new, revolutionary point of view only dealt with physical matters, and no possible links to other fields of knowledge were worked out until the foreseeing ideas proposed by physicist Ettore Majorana.

Majorana was an Italian theoretic physicist and one of the fathers of quantum and nuclear physics. Some of his most relevant achievements are: the theoretical discovery of the characteristic of the neutrons (not ascribed to him because of his refusal to publish his results); the generalization of the consequence of  Dirac’s equation according to which a particle of spin ½ has an antiparticle to every kind of particle, regardless of its spin; the prediction of the existence of neutrino and its behaviour as a spinor particle in order to give account of the continuum spectre of the b-decay…

Lucía Álvarez Filgueira

La Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias de Estocolmo declaró como ganadores en la categoría de Física a los rusos Andre Geim y Konstantin Novoselov, por sus experimentos revolucionarios con el grafeno, descubierto en 2004.