Italy On This Day

‘Genius’ who disappeared in mysterious circumstances Ettore Majorana was seen by colleagues as both a genius and an enigma The theoretical p...

Defection to Soviet Union sparked unsolved mystery  Bruno Pontecorvo hailed from a family of talented individuals Bruno Pontecorvo, a...

First woman to be director-general of CERN Fabiola Gianotti - the would-be concert pianist who instead became a brilliant physicist ...

Scientist from Rome who created world’s first nuclear reactor Enrico Fermi discovered how splitting uranium atoms could generate vas...