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TIL about Ettore Majorana, a colleague and friend of Fermi, Heisenberg and Bohr among many others, he was considered to be a genius comparable to the greats like Newton and Galilei by most physics of his time, he mysteriously disappeared in 1938 and was never seen again.

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