 Quirino Majorana

Quirino Majorana (28 October 1871 – 31 July 1957) was an experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena during his long career as professor of physics at the Universities of Rome, Turin (1916–1921), and Bologna (1921–1934).Majorana performed a long series of very sensitive gravity shielding experiments from 1918 to 1922, which have never been reproduced.