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

McNair, Ronald, 415

McSherry, Rose, 263, 266

Magic City, The (Nesbit), 237

Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 134

Mailer, Norman, 326

Manhattan Project, see atomic bomb; Los Alamos Marchant calculator, see calculating machines Marshak, Robert, 256, 337–38, 411

Marshal Space Flight Center, 417, 426

Marx, Groucho, 9, 405

mass, 4–5, 99, 231, 239–40, 251, 262, 272, 283

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 49, 51–91

curriculum, 66

cyclotron, 107

fraternities, 62–64, 69, 74, 117, 374

machine shops, 77–78

physics at, 53–56, 66–67, 79–80

Radiation Laboratory, 91, 136–38, 141, 158, 166, 209, 216, 234

senior theses, 82–83, 86

social life, 62–64

mathematics, 25, 47, 52, 83, 155, 235

in biology, 132

education, 399–401

Feynman and, 27, 32, 34–36, 102–5, 129, 182–83, 217–18

music and, 65

Nobel Prize and, 377

nonlinear, 164, 174, 178–81

partitions, 238

physics vs., 52–54, 56, 102–3, 145, 238

probability theory, 34, 166, 168–69, 197, 249

recreational, 34–36, 103–5

Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de, 59, 61

Mautner, Leonard, 23, 34

Maxwel , James Clerk, 49, 101, 110–11, 118, 262, 368, 431

Maya, 292, 367

Mayhew, Nye, 62

Mayo Clinic, 195–96, 219

Mead, Carver, 434

Mead, Margaret, 287

medicine

Feynman and, 125–27, 194–96, 402

scientific method in, 132–34, 194–96

tuberculosis, 133–35, 149–50

Melchior, Lauritz, 328

Melvil e, Herman, 319

Menge, Edward J. v. K., 52–53

Merton, Robert K., 329

meson, 146, 229, 250, 256, 269, 270–71, 282–83, 304, 309, 333, 336

Metal urgical Laboratory (Chicago), 146, 157–58, 161, 164

Metropolis, Nicholas, 180–81, 185

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 46

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 328

Michigan State University, 292

microbiology, 133, 293, 329, 349–51, 355, 358

Mil , John Stuart, 66

Mil er, Glenn, 62

Mil ikan, Robert, 33, 81, 306, 358

Milton, 314

mind, see consciousness

miniaturization, see nanotechnology Minkowski, Hermann, 70, 109, 122–23

miracles, 58, 362, 372–73

Miramar Palace Hotel (Rio de Janeiro), 282, 287

Miranda, Carmen, 278

mirror, 331. See also symmetry

Möbius strip, 67

Moore, Jesse, 419–20

Morrison, Philip, 10 n, 157, 212, 263, 285, 407

Morse, Philip M., 53, 55, 76, 78–80, 83–84, 86, 91

Morse, Samuel, 319

Morton, Donald, 404

Morton Thiokol, 419, 421, 425

Mount Wilson Observatory, 293

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 319, 322–23, 325, 328

Mul oy, Lawrence, 422–23

Munich, University of, 52, 53, 166

music, 14, 15, 65, 285–86, 319, 322–23, 328

Nabokov, Vladimir, 243

nanotechnology, 14, 77, 354–56, 407

nanotechnology, 14, 77, 354–56, 407

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 415–28

National Academy of Sciences, 259, 383–84

National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution), 421

National Geographic , 46

National Research Council, 93, 216, 428

National Science Foundation, 210

National Youth Administration, 76

nature

laws of, 57–61, 101, 109, 244, 265, 294, 299, 317, 325, 338, 365–67, 411

simplicity in, 13–14, 22, 59–60, 78, 260, 432–38

Nazi Party, 167

Neddermeyer, Seth, 170

Nesbit, Edith, 237

Neumann, John von, 115, 117, 202, 255

early computing, 181–82

fluid models, 299

and irresponsibility, 181, 200

mental calculating, 175

neuropsychology, 312, 321

neutrino, 283, 335–38

neutron, 78–80, 94–95, 114, 136, 140, 157, 161–63, 168, 172–75, 198, 270, 305, 307, 335, 392

New York Academy of Sciences, 232

New York City, 20–23, 27, 41, 48–49

public schools, 30–32, 48

New York Herald Tribune , 233

New York Times, 42, 154, 235, 375–76, 421–22

New York University, 34

New Yorker , 399

Newman, Thomas H., 356

Newton, Isaac, 38, 41, 57–61, 109, 363

forces and, 88, 111, 228

as genius, 314–15, 317, 319–20, 328–29

laws of, 29, 59–61, 106, 147, 365, 368, 375

originality and, 10

time and, 119

Niels Bohr Institute, 4, 5, 93, 279

Nishijima, Kazuhiko, 310, 360

Nobel Prize, 5, 23, 49, 166, 209, 242, 375–82, 396

Bethe’s, 166, 377

Bohr’s, 242, 375–76

Chandrasekhar’s, 316

effect on winners, 381–83

Einstein’s, 375–77

Feynman’s, 9, 349, 375–83, 401, 408, 417

Fleming’s, 133

Gel -Mann’s, 390, 396

Lamb’s, 234

nomination by Feynman, 396

Oppenheimer and, 5, 159, 377

prestige of, 374–76

rule of three, 377

Yang and Lee’s, 334

nonlinear mathematics, 164, 174, 178–81

nonlinear mathematics, 164, 174, 178–81

nuclear physics, see physics

nucleus, 9, 79–80, 130, 264, 307, 392

molecular forces, 89–90

uranium, 95

Oak Ridge, 141, 165, 197–200, 205, 209, 228

Oersted, Hans Christian, 320

Office of Naval Research, 209, 211, 294

Olum, Paul, 141–42, 145, 158, 162, 178, 190

Omar Khayyám, 343

Omni , 396

Onizuka, El ison, 415

Onsager, Lars, 300–301, 316

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 4–6, 24, 53, 85, 158–60, 162–64, 166, 168, 175, 185, 187, 198, 233, 239, 255, 258, 260–61, 270–71, 330, 333

Dyson and, 259, 266–70, 377

Feynman and, 6, 85, 144, 184, 190, 199–200, 204, 226–27, 257–59, 266–70

Nobel Prize, 5, 159, 377

post-bomb psychology, 3, 203, 207–10

Schwinger and, 158, 216, 234, 252, 257–59, 266–70

security trials, 5, 210, 292, 295–96

at Trinity, 154–56

originality, see genius

out-of-body experiences, 14, 406

Pais, Abraham, 99, 228 n, 233, 307, 309–10, 332–33

Pale Fire (Nabokov), 243

Palmer Physical Laboratory (Princeton University), 107–8

Pan American Airways, 278, 287

Paris Match , 286

parity, 330–35, 338–40

Park, David, 10 n, 61, 124, 366

particle accelerators. See also CERN; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

early, 95–96, 107

postwar, 210–11, 226, 255–56, 295, 304, 309, 332, 389–91, 435–36

Soviet, 298

technique, 16, 305–6

in uranium separation, 139–45

particles. See also electron; photon; etc.

associated production, 307, 309

conceptions of, 5, 89, 123, 242–43, 256, 261–62, 275, 283, 307, 369, 375

fundamental, 58, 283

inertia and, 175

interaction of, 48, 102, 110–12, 117–18, 121, 139, 147

paths, 7, 57–61, 109, 121, 128, 132, 171, 229–31, 247–49, 255, 258

proliferation of, 114, 256, 283, 304–5, 309, 330, 389

quasi-, 300–302

scattering, 79–82, 174, 256

virtual, 273–75

waves and, 7, 18–19, 73, 80, 99, 243, 247

partons, 9, 387–96

Pasadena (Calif.), 82, 277, 281–82

Huntington Hotel, 347

path integrals, 246–51, 254–55, 275

in beta decay, 336

development of, 132, 174, 229–31

first presentation, 258

in gravitation, 354

in masers, 349

revival of, 354, 404

Pauli, Wolfgang, 117–18, 127, 216, 242, 257, 269. See also exclusion principle

on Dirac, 58

“ ganz falsch ,” 115, 404

on parity, 334

Pauling, Linus, 40, 293

Peierls, Rudolf, 169

penicil in, 133, 196, 329

periodic table, 294, 389