Editing Ettore Majorana (section)

===Gifted in mathematics===
Majorana was born in [[Catania]], [[Sicily]]. Majorana's uncle [[Quirino Majorana]] was also a physicist. Mathematically gifted, Majorana began his university studies in [[engineering]] in 1923, but switched to [[physics]] in 1928 at the urging of [[Emilio Segrè]].<ref name="digest1991">{{cite book |title=Great Mysteries of the Past |publisher=[[Reader's Digest]] Association |place=Pleasantville, New York |year=1991 |isbn=0-89577-377-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/greatmysteriesof00read }}</ref>{{rp|69–72}} He was very young when he joined [[Enrico Fermi]]'s team in [[University of Rome La Sapienza|Rome]] as one of the "[[Via Panisperna boys]]", who took their name from the street address of their laboratory.<ref>{{citation |last=Sciascia |first=Leonardo |page=137 |title=The Moro Affair ; And, the Mystery of Majorana |date=1987 |publisher=Carcanet |isbn=978-0-85635-700-8 |language=en}}</ref>