Ettore Majorana

It is January 10, 1938, when Ettore Majorana arrives in Naples to take up the chair of Theoretical Physics for exceptional merit. The head of the Physics Institute is Antonio Carrelli. Caccioppoli knows him well, not only for academic reasons, but also because, like him, Carrelli attended the Posillipo club, animated by the marchese Pietro La Via as long as the regime allowed it. The presence of a member of Enrico Fermi’s Roman working group arouses great interest in the university.