Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania.
When the author moved to the University of Catania, Sicily, from Mil.
Enrico Fermi considered him one of brightest scientists, comparable to Galileo and Newton.
On March 25, 1938, Ettore Majorana mysteriously disappeared at 31.
He joined Enrico Fermi\'s \'Via Panisperna boys\' at an early age and was part of the team who first discovered the slow neutrons (the research that would lead to the nuclear reactor and eventually, the atomic bomb).
Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania