Commemoration of Majorana's Centenary
The year 2006 marked Majorana's centenary.
The International Conference on "Ettore Majorana's legacy and the Physics of the XXI century" EMC2006 was held in commemoration of the centennial of Majorana's birth in Catania October 5–6, 2006. The conference Proceedings with articles of high ranked international scientists A. Bianconi, D. Brink, N. Cabibbo, R. Casalbuoni, G. Dragoni, S. Esposito, E. Fiorini, M. Inguscio, R.W. Jackiw, L. Maiani, R. Mantegna, E. Migneco, R. Petronzio, B. Preziosi, R. Pucci, E. Recami, and A. Zichichi have been published by POS Proceedings of Science of SISSA Edited by Andrea Rapisarda (chairman), Paolo Castorina, Francesco Catara, Salvatore Lo Nigro, Emilio Migneco, Francesco Porto, and Emanuele Rimini.
A commemorative book "Ettore Majorana Scientific Papers on the occasion of the centenary of the birth" of his (nine) collected papers, with commentary and English translations, was published by the Italian Physical Society.
To commemorate the centenary Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics' (EJTP) also published a special issue of twenty articles dedicated to the modern development of Majorana’s legacy.
The Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics also established a prize in his memory to mark the centenary. The "Majorana Medal" or Majorana Prize is an annual prize for researchers who have shown peculiar creativity, critical sense, and mathematical rigour in theoretical physics — in its broadest sense. The recipients of the 2006 Majorana Prize were Erasmo Recami (University of Bergamo and INFN) and George Sudarshan (University of Texas); of the 2007 Majorana Prize: Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada), Eliano Pessa (Centro Interdipartimentale di Scienze Cognitive, Università di Pavia and Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Pavia Piazza Botta, Italy) and Marcello Cini (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy).
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