Ettore Majorana

The first time I heard of Majorana-particles was in a great online lecture of Leonard Susskind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzGY-BrCUgA
At around 1:14:00 Susskind discusses Majorana particles and tells us that Ettore Majorana disappeared after discovering the particle in 1938. I did want to know more and started reading about this man who'd disappeared mysteriously. Was it suicide? Was he killed by the Nazi's or did he flee to Argentina? I wanted to write about this, but there was no topical reason to do so, until I read about Dutch physicist Leo Kouwenhoven, who had 'discovered' the Majorana particle. It seemed to be a good alibi to write about the life of Ettore Majorana and I made an appointment with Kouwenhoven. But what he told me was so interesting, that I still haven't written about Ettore Majorana.