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visualization of, 102, 242, 245–46

field theory, 48–49, 118, 146, 250, 256, 261–62, 275, 279–80, 326, 348, 381, 402

decline of, 330

fission, nuclear, 79, 95, 136, 146, 161–63, 168, 172–73

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 97

flavor (particle property), 229, 390, 403

Fleming, Alexander, 133, 329

Flexagons, 9, 103–4, 131

“The Flight of the Bumblebee,” 15

Fonda, Henry, 44

Ford, Henry, 40

Fort Knox, 164

Fowler, Wil y, 316

Frankel, Stanley, 180

Frankford Arsenal (Philadelphia), 137–38

free wil , 431

French, Bruce, 253–54

Freud, Sigmund, 318, 326

friction, 9, 29, 299–302, 356, 361, 398

Frisch, Otto, 154, 203

Fuchs, Klaus, 6, 185, 187, 190, 191, 201, 296–97

functional roots, 137

Gardner, Martin, 104

gauge invariance, 256

Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 311

Gel -Mann, Margaret, 346

Gel -Mann, Murray, 232, 348, 351, 382

background, 307–9

at Caltech, 311, 338, 340–41, 346–47, 402, 405, 407

Feynman and, 11, 310–11, 315, 332–39, 346–47, 354, 367, 387–89, 411, 434

Nobel Prize, 376–77, 396

parity, 332–35

quarks, 390–96

on Schwinger, 277, 308

on solid-state physics, 14

strangeness, 309–10, 360

SU (3), 387, 389–91

weak interactions, 335–39

Gelman, Benedict, 308

General Electric, 141, 223

general relativity, see relativity genetics, 14, 133, 293, 349–51, 355, 358

Geneva, 339–40

genius, 8, 36, 311–29

American, 318–19

disappearance of, 312, 327–29

Edison as, 319–20

imagination in, 313, 324–25

literature of, 312–15

madness and, 314–19

as “magician,” 10–11, 312, 315–17, 324

mythologizing of, 10–11, 43–44, 315, 322

originality, 10, 324–26

physical basis of, 311–12

physicists’ view of, 8, 322–24

rationalization of, 315–16

Gerard, Alexander, 314

Germany, 22, 42, 77–78, 97, 128, 140, 167, 260, 414

Gershwin, George, 186

Gilbert, Wil iam, 68

Glashow, Sheldon, 405

God, 317, 318, 322, 372–73, 398

Feynman and, 31–32, 115, 220–21, 372–73

proofs of, 58–59, 67–68

scientists and, 58–60

Gödel, Kurt, 295, 429

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 66, 236

Goldberger, Marvin, 293, 404

Goodstein, David, 12 n, 363, 386–87

Gordon, Walter, 73

Gould, Stephen Jay, 327

Graduate Record Examination, 83–84

Graham, Wil iam R., 417–21

gravitation, 9, 42, 56, 74–75, 111, 115, 120, 309, 316, 351–54, 365

Groves, Leslie R., 143–44, 159–60

Grünewald, Matthias, 65–66

gyroscope, 362

hadron, 392–95

Hamiltonian method, 128, 226

Handler, Philip, 384

Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 236

Harvard University, 83, 85, 97, 141–42, 160, 182, 216, 276–77, 308, 378, 404

Harvey, Thomas S., 311–12

Harvey, Wil iam, 68

Hawking, Stephen, 322, 430–32

Heisenberg, Werner. See also uncertainty in quantum mechanics

atomic bomb and, 140

cosmic rays and, 82

Feynman and, 404

quantum mechanics, 72–73, 75, 88, 102, 232, 246, 269, 367, 391

S matrix, 267, 329

Tomonaga and, 260

on visualization, 5, 242

youth of, 52, 78

helium, see superfluidity

hexaflexagons, see flexagons

Hibbs, Albert, 415

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

history of science, 11, 41, 279–80, 313–14, 320, 322, 380

Hitchcock, Alfred, 223

Hofstadter, Douglas, 404

Holton, Gerald, 245, 385–86

Homer, 313, 314, 317

Hoover, J. Edgar, 296

Hopfield, John, 434

Hubble, Edwin, 124

Hughes Aircraft Company, 406, 415

Huxley, Thomas, 66

Huygens, Christiaan, 250

hydrodynamics, 163, 299

hydrogen, 72–74, 79, 94, 161–62, 164, 173, 198, 234

hydrogen bomb, 6, 204, 258, 278, 296, 365

Idlewild Field (Kennedy International Airport), 20

inertia, 29, 174–75, 259

infinities, see quantum mechanics

Institute for Advanced Study, 94, 106, 227, 266–70, , 295, 309, 346, 377

intel igence tests, 30

interference, 111–12, 247, 250

International Business Machines Corporation, 179–82, 198, 407, 414

Interscholastic Algebra League (New York), 32–34, 83

isotopic spin, 282, 306–7, 387

isotron project, 139–45, 157

Jacobs, Morrie, 47

Jarvis, Gregory, 415

Jehle, Herbert, 128–29, 136

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 281, 404, 414–15, 417–18

Johns Hopkins University, 94

Johnson Space Center, 426

Jones, James, 327

Jornada del Muerto (N.M.), 154, 202

Judaism, 22–23, 27–28, 65, 85, 220–21

Kac, Mark, 10–11, 249, 315, 322–23

Kazin, Alfred, 21

Kemble, Edwin C, 53

Kennedy Space Center, 426

Keynes, John Maynard, 317

Klein-Gordon equation, 73–74, 336

Klein, Oskar, 73

knowledge. See also uncertainty

faith and, 37, 58, 221

false, 373–74, 407

fundamental, 14, 22, 357, 435–36

guilty, 3, 203, 207–10, 263–64

hoarded, 316–17

rote, 66, 283–84, 398–401

philosophy of, 357, 364–75, 429

practical, 14–16, 36, 68, 366

scarcity of, 47–48

secret, 210

stratification of, 9, 67, 372

Kuhn, Thomas S., 321–22

Kusch, Polykarp, 377

Kutyna, Donald J., 416, 419–23, 426

Kyōto University, 259–60

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 192

Lady Eve, The , 44

Lagrange, Joseph Louis, 59–61, 250

Lagrangian method, 60–61, 88, 128–32, 147, 170–71, 228

Lamb, Wil is, 234, 239, 377

Lamb shift, 234, 239–40, 251–53, 260

Landau, Lev , 130, 239 n, 297, 298, 300–301

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de, 430

Laurence, Wil iam L., 40 n, 154–55 n

Lauritsen, Charles, 282

Lavatel i, Leo, 144 n

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 39

law, scientific, 29, 57–61, 101, 109, 244, 265, 294, 299, 317, 325, 338, 365–67, 411

lawn-sprinkler problem, 106–8

Lawrence, D. H., 237

Lawrence, Ernest O., 130, 136, 166, 226

calutron, 142–44

least action, principle of, 57–61, 228, 362, 366

Feynman’s first encounter, 60–61

in quantum mechanics, 121, 127–29, 131–32, 138–39, 147, 247–50

Lee, Tsung Dao, 333–34, 336–37

Leighton, Ralph, 409–10

Leighton, Robert B., 363

Levi-Civita, Tul io, 56

Lewine, Frances (cousin), 26, 438

Lewine, Pearl (Phil ips) (aunt), 25, 26

Lewine, Ralph (uncle), 26

Lewine, Robert (cousin), 26

Lewis, Gilbert N., 120

light, 14, 30, 57–61, 71–72, 80–83, 100–1, 110–11, 120–

21, 125–26, 247, 250, 259, 273, 284, 368, 373. See also photon; quantum electrodynamics Lil y, John, 406

Lindemann, Ferdinand von, 52

liquid helium, see superfluidity

Littlewood, J. E., 236, 238

lock picking, 15, 187–88, 297, 340

Lombroso, Cesare, 318

Long Island Rail Road, 20

Lorentz, Hendrik A., 72

Los Alamos, 3, 6, 8, 9, 49, 185–87, 190, 204–5, 216, 218

choice of site, 159–60

computing at, 164, 175–82, 190–91, 198, 201

postwar, 208–10, 212, 234

security, 161–62, 187, 191–92, 237

theoretical division, 165–66, 169, 172

Los Angeles Times , 437

Love in America (Cohn), 192

Lovingood, Judson A., 419

McAuliffe, Christa, 415

McCarran Immigration Act, 297

MacInnes, Duncan, 232

McLel an, Wil iam, 356

McMil in Theater (Columbia University), 252