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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 (Carrol ), 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 Bel Laboratories, see Bel 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

Barschal , Heinz, 96

Bartkey, Walter, 293

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 318

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

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 318

Beggs, James, 421, 427

Bel , Alexander Graham, 40, 319

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

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

Bergman, Ingrid, 223

Bernal, J. D., 315–16

Bernoul i, 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 Cornel , 204–5, 226–28, 269–70, 277, 278, 293–94

and Dyson, 235, 238–39, 266–67