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  INDEX

  Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), 182

  absorber theory, see Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics

  action, 59–61, 131–32, 226, 229, 247–48. See also least action, principle of Planck’s constant and, 71

  action at a distance, 101–2, 128

  Aldrich, Arnold, 419–20

  algebra, 29–30, 33–34, 36, 183, 362, 401

  Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 124

  Alpert, Richard, 406

  American Broadcasting Corporation, 378

  American Museum of Natural History (New York), 25

  American Physical Society, 53

  meetings, 40, 117, 252, 270, 301, 354–55, 411–12

  Ampère, Andrè-Marie, 320

  analogy, 404

  Anderson, Carl, 81, 253

  anthropology, 287, 290

  antigravity, 295, 407

  antimatter, 7, 122, 253–54, 305, 334, 407

  and time reversal, 82, 123, 258, 272–73

  anti-Semitism, 23, 49, 53, 62, 84–85, 167, 233

  Archimedes, 315

  Aristotle, 359

  Armstrong, Neil, 417, 423

  Army, United States, 137, 182, 414–15

  Feynman as consultant, 295

  Los Alamos and, 161, 187, 192–93, 198–99

  Oppenheimer and, 158–59

  secrecy and, 166, 169

  Ashkin, Julius, 192

  Associated Press, 378

  astrology, 373–74

  athletics, 327–28

  atom, 36–39, 58–59, 114. See also hydrogen; uranium

  models of, 5, 71–72, 95, 99, 241–43

  nucleus, 9, 79–80, 89–90, 130, 264, 307, 392

  atomic bomb. See also Los Alamos

  Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168

  chain reaction, 161–63, 172–73, 197

  computation, 175–82, 201

  dragon experiment, 196

  effect on physics, 4, 203, 207–11, 216, 232, 294–95, 376, 431

  guilt over, 3, 156, 203, 207–9, 213, 263–64

  Hiroshima, 156, 203–4, 210, 218, 237, 263

  isotron project, 139–45

  Nagasaki, 156, 203, 210

  official history, 164

  origins of, 95, 136, 139

  postwar consequences of, 156, 207–11, 213, 218, 233, 278, 294–95, 340, 431

  practical difficulties, 163–65, 170–73, 181

  predetonation, 6, 168–69

  radioactivity, 197–99

  Russian, 278, 297–98

  space travel and, 218–19

  theorists’ role, 155, 163–65, 173–74, 181

  Trinity test, 6, 65–66, 153–57, 203

  atomic energy, 218, 339

  Atomic Energy Commission, 209, 211, 277, 295–96

  AT&T Bell Laboratories, see Bell Telephone Laboratories

  Auden, W. H., 7–8

  aurora borealis, 27, 436, 437

  Baade, Walter, 293

  Baba Ram Das, see Alpert, Richard

  Babbage, Charles, 180

  Bacher, Robert F., 210–11, 277–78, 338

  Bacon, Francis, 429

  Bacon, Roger, 68, 314

  bacteria, 349–51

  Bader, Abram, 60–61, 362

  Bainbridge, Kenneth, 155

  Barber, Edwin, 411 n

  Bardeen, John, 303

  Barschall, Heinz, 96

  Bartkey, Walter, 293

  Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 318

  Bayside Cemetery (New York), 26, 220–21

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 318

  Beggs, James, 421, 427

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 40, 319

  Bell, Mary Louise (second wife), 287, 291–94

  Bell Telephone Laboratories, 85, 137–38, 182, 354

  Bergman, Ingrid, 223

  Bernal, J. D., 315–16

  Bernoulli, Daniel, 39

  Bernstein, Jeremy, 277

  Besicovitch, A. S., 236

  beta decay, 272, 309, 330–39

  Bethe, Hans, 53, 176–78, 216, 233, 255–59, 287, 386

  background, 166–67, 289

  consulting, 223

  at Cornell, 204–5, 226–28, 269–70, 277, 278, 293–94

  and Dyson, 235, 238–39, 266–67

  and Feynman, 165–66, 169, 184, 212, 241, 249, 262, 296

  as genius, 322

  Lamb shift calculation, 239–40, 251–52

  at Los Alamos, 165–69, 171, 173, 180, 198, 202–3

  mental arithmetic, 14–15, 175–77

  Nobel Prize, 377

  nuclear physics, 80, 167

  physical intuition, 166–67, 305

  prewar research, 138

  renormalization, 239–40, 252

  Schwinger and, 216

  Bethe, Henry, 241

  Bethe, Rose, 202, 289

  Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168

&nbs
p; Bhagavad Gita, 155

  Bhopal chemical disaster, 416

  bikini, 339

  bird watching, 28–29, 308, 388

  Birge, Raymond T., 85, 184, 204

  Bjorken, James D., 393–94

  black hole, 93, 353

  Blake, William, 318

  Block, Martin, 333, 335

  Bohr, Aage, 258

  Bohr, Niels, 5, 10, 15, 41, 130, 243–44, 279–80, 292

  atomic model, 38, 71–72, 99, 242

  complementarity, 40, 54, 247

  criticism of Feynman, 8, 226, 258

  as genius, 322

  liquid-drop model, 95, 139

  at Los Alamos, 8, 257

  Nobel Prize, 376

  at Pocono, 5, 8, 255–58

  Wheeler and, 93–95

  Bondi, Hermann, 125–26

  bootstrap model, 369–70

  Boscovich, Ruggiero, 39

  Boyle, Robert, 38–39

  Braun, Wernher von, 414

  Brazil

  appeal to Americans, 278

  Feynman in, 278, 282–87, 337, 341

  physics in, 278, 283–84

  Brewster’s Law, 283

  Bridgman, Percy, 101

  Broglie, Louis de, 73

  Bronk, Detlev W., 383–84

  Brookhaven National Laboratory for Nuclear Research, 53, 209

  Cahn, Judah, 219–21

  calculating, mental, 9–10, 33–36, 175–78, 328–29

  calculating machines, 83, 124, 138, 176, 179–82, 355

  California Institute of Technology, 281–82

  Atheneum, 388

  cafeteria, 12, 388

  cosmic ray research, 81, 253

  Einstein at, 281

  Engineering and Science, 355–56

  Feynman at, 277–78, 282–83, 293–94, 311, 338, 340–41, 349, 357–63, 379, 398, 404, 406–7, 412, 435, 437

  Gell-Mann at, 311, 338, 340–41, 407

  genetics, 349–51

  government financing, 386, 406

  growth of, 277, 281–82

  Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 282

  liquid helium experiments, 302

  nuclear physics, 281

  physics colloquium, 404

  physics teaching, 12, 277, 295, 357–63, 404–405

  Physics X, 12, 398, 417

  women at, 412

  California, University of, at Berkeley, 53, 85, 130, 136, 141, 143, 163, 166, 184, 204, 209, 210, 216, 255–56

  Cambridge University, 53, 159, 166, 236, 238, 315, 317

  Case, Kenneth, 270–72, 282