Джеймс Глик - Genius - The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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

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, Wil iam, 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

Gel -Mann at, 311, 338, 340–41, 407

genetics, 349–51

government financing, 386, 406

growth of, 277, 281–82

Kel ogg Radiation Laboratory, 282

liquid helium experiments, 302

nuclear physics, 281

physics col oquium, 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

Catskil Mountains (New York), 28

causality, 7, 40, 54, 70–72, 109, 112, 243, 365–66, 371

Cedarhurst (New York), 20–21, 23, 26, 45, 151

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, 278, 283–84

“Century of Progress” (1933 World’s Fair), 40–42

CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), 381, 383

Challenger (space shuttle), 11, 145, 415–28

background, 425

investigating commission, 416–17

launch, 415–16

O-rings, 418–23, 427–28

risk assessment, 427–28

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 316

chaos, 119, 182, 360, 430–31, 435–36

Character of Physical Law , 13, 364–71

Chaucer, 235

chemistry, 38–39, 67, 79, 86–90, 99, 264

quantum, 40, 87

Chicago, University of, 10, 41, 141, 146, 157–58, 161, 164, 282, 309, 386

honorary degree offer, 384

recruiting of Feynman, 294

Christian Century , 207

Citizen Kane (Wel es), 236

City Col ege of New York, 48, 215

clouds, 22, 80–81, 154

Cobb, Ty, 327

Cohn, David L., 192 n

Coleman, Sidney, 10 n, 323–24, 389, 405

color (light), 130, 131, 321, 357, 362

color (particle property), 229, 387, 390, 402–3, 432

Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School (New York), 307, 309

Columbia University, 49, 144, 180, 252, 267, 309, 334, 337, 384

Rabi at, 53, 91, 232, 234

Schwinger at, 215–16

Commerce, Department of, United States, 296

complementarity, 40, 54

Compton, Karl, 55, 94, 138

computing, 6, 175–82, 329, 348, 354–55, 435

analog, 137

ENIAC, 182

Condon, Edward, 54–55

consciousness, 68–69, 123–24, 243, 321, 431

continental drift, 321

Cook, Richard, 423–24

Coolidge, Albert Sprague, 85

Cooper, Leon, 303

Copyright Office, United States, 328

Coriolis force, 37

Cornel University, 3, 53, 123

Bethe at, 53, 80, 166, 225–27, 238, 277

Dyson at, 7, 238–39

Feynman at, 10, 204, 214–22, 225–27, 263, 277–78, 286, 288, 293–94, 365

postwar growth, 210–12, 221

women at, 212

cosmic rays, 81–82, 98, 114, 168, 215, 253, 304, 332

cosmology, 112–14, 123–26, 293, 353–54

Crease, Robert, 433–34 n

Crick, Francis, 349, 351, 382

current algebra, 328, 338, 393

Cutler, Monarch, 82–83

Cvitanović, Predrag, 279–80 n

cyclotron, 95–96, 107–8, 136, 160, 210–11, 305–6

Daghlian, Harry, 196

Darwin, Charles, 207

Dawes, Rufus C, 41

Day, Edmund Ezra, 210

Delbrück, Max, 293, 340, 349

Depression, 41, 46, 53, 55, 77, 281, 308

Descartes, René, 58–59, 67–68

diffusion, 79, 80, 171–75, 182, 249

and entropy, 119

in uranium separation, 139–40, 144

DiMaggio, Joe, 328

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

antimatter, 122, 253

at Cambridge, 53–54, 166, 236

Feynman and, 7, 184, 226, 228–29, 437

as genius, 43–44, 322

history of quantum mechanics, 72–73

Lagrangian in quantum mechanics, 128–29, 131–32, 226

parity and, 334

at Pocono, 5, 7, 255–58

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics , 56, 76, 99–

100, 260

religion and, 58

renormalization and, 347–49

Schwinger and, 48–49

Slater and, 53–54

Dirac equation, 5, 73, 229–30, 234, 261–62, 336–38

discovery, 284, 313–14, 321

individual vs. multiple, 329

myths of, 279, 315, 380

DNA, 14, 293, 349–351, 355, 386

Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), 156

Don Juan, 319

Double Helix, The (Watson), 386

DuBridge, Lee, 295, 415

Duff, Wil iam, 313

Dyson, Freeman J., 298

background, 235–38

at Cornel , 235, 238

Feynman and, 3–4, 7, 240–41, 244, 249–51, 262–66, 273, 323, 368, 424

genius and, 317, 320–21, 323, 328

Nobel Prize, 377–78

Nobel Prize, 377–78

Oppenheimer and, 269–70

quantum electrodynamics, 239–40, 252, 259, 263, 266–

72, 274, 279–80, 307, 309, 348, 367

Schwinger and, 261, 266–68, 271

Dyson, George, 235, 267

Dyson, Mildred, 235–36

Dyson graph, 269, 273

earthquake science, 281–82

Eastman, George, 55

Eddington, Arthur, 52, 75, 109, 433

Edgerton, Harold, 77

Edison, Thomas Alva, 40–44, 54–55, 319–20, 329

Einstein, Albert, 5, 9–10, 45, 54, 56, 70, 112, 120, 123, 129, 209, 244, 264, 281, 324, 386, 433–34

atomic bomb, 136

Bohr and, 40

brain, 311–12

ether, 18, 101–2

Feynman and, 98, 115, 117, 118–19, 257

legend, 41–44, 311–13, 320–22, 326

Nobel Prize, 375–77

photoelectric effect, 71, 377

on Princeton, 97

on quantum mechanics, 40, 45, 215, 243, 347

relativity, 42–43, 71, 72, 255, 329, 351–52, 365, 368, 375, 429–30

religion and, 58, 372

retirement, 118–19

Einstein Award, 295–96, 343, 378–79

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 296, 297, 340

electric light, 319, 329

electricity, 320

electron, 4, 5, 33, 71–73, 79, 86, 114, 122–23, 127, 231–