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

Phi Beta Delta (MIT), 63–64, 69, 74, 117, 374

Phil ips, Henry (maternal grandfather), 24, 26

Phil ips, Johanna (née Helinksy, maternal grandmother), 24

philosophy, 58–60, 364–75, 391

atoms and, 36–38, 67–70

Feynman and, 13–14, 182, 232, 364–75, 397–98, 400, 429, 436

quantum mechanics and, 54, 88–89, 429–30

time and, 109, 123–26, 243–44

photon, 54, 120–21, 242–43, 246, 268, 270, 273–75, 394

photon, 54, 120–21, 242–43, 246, 268, 270, 273–75, 394

Physical Review , 6, 48, 216, 261, 266, 275, 310, 316, 381

of the blind men, 435

Feynman and, 76, 82, 90, 249, 271–72, 338

Feynman diagrams in, 283–84

women in, 289

Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion , 48, 128

physics, 48. See also quantum electrodynamics, quantum mechanics

American, 44–45, 53–55

anti-Semitism in, 53, 84–85

as career, 52–53, 91

conferences

Cambridge, Mass. (1941), 117

Chicago (1933), 40

Cornel (1963), 123–26

New York (1948), 252

New York (1949), 270

New York (1955), 301

Oldstone-on-the-Hudson (1950), 271

Pasadena (1959), 354–55

Pocono (1948), 4–8, 255–61, 288, 304, 384

Princeton (1946), 226

“Rochester” (1950–57), 304, 310, 332–33, 334–35, 339

San Francisco (1972), 411–12

Shelter Island (1948), 232–34

Solvay (1961), 347

Warsaw (1962), 353–54

elementary particle, 9, 16, 294–95

elite, 4–5

experiment in, 16, 234, 305–6

final laws, 432–34

generations of, 8

grand unified theories, 431–34

heroes in, 8

history, 279–80, 380

as human activity, 364

in Japan, 259–61

journals, 48

language of, 14, 229, 295, 390, 431

military and, 4, 209–11, 294–95, 385

models in, 86, 210, 243–44, 299, 367–68, 375, 437

nuclear, 40, 48, 67, 79–80, 94–96, 98, 130, 136–45, 163–75, 196–200, 209–11, 226

prewar growth, 98

solid-state, 14, 86–88, 298

teaching, 55–56, 357–59

unification, 7, 265–66

visualization in, 5, 7, 241–49, 255–56, 302–3, 325–26

women in, 289, 411–12

World War I and, 4

Physics Today , 259, 289, 384–85

Piaggio, H. T. H., 236

Picasso, Pablo, 326

pion, 304–5, 332–33, 336

Planck, Max, 71, 146

Plato, 36

Plutonium, 141, 164–65, 168, 170, 173, 196–9’

Pocono conference (1948), 4–8, 255–61, 288, 304, 384

Podolsky, Boris, 216

poetry, 7–8, 31–32, 69, 105, 244, 314, 373–74, 412–13, 436–37

poker, 182, 239

polaron, 349

polio, 133

Polkinghorne, John, 215 n, 334 n, 372

positron, see antimatter

Presbyterian Sanatorium (Albuquerque, N.M.), 3, 159, 170, 184, 192

Princeton University, 53, 58, 76, 96

bicentennial, 226

fel owships, 136

Feynman and, 83–85

Graduate Col ege, 97, 102

laboratories, 106–8

oral examinations, 130

physics col oquium, 114–15, 117

tea, 97–98, 102–3, 130

war work, 141

probability, 79, 119, 373, 404

amplitude, 132, 246–49, 275, 393–94, 433

negative, 73

in quantum mechanics, 72–75, 128, 132, 246–49, 258, 275

risk and, 197, 427–28

theory of, 166, 168–69, 249

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , 48

Prometheus, 203, 207–8

psychology, 19, 223–25, 255, 312–13, 321, 324, 362, 374–75, 405–6

Putnam competition, 83

Pythagoras, 41

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter , 13

quantum chromodynamics, 402–4, 431

quantum electrodynamics, 6–9, 159, 242, 304, 330, 347–

49, 377–80

accuracy of, 330, 348

crisis in, 99–100, 226, 234, 239

Dyson’s, 266–72, 377–78

early, 48–49

Feynman’s, 127–29, 146–48, 245–52, 258, 267–77, 311, 321, 380–81

“partons” of, 394

Schwinger’s, 251–52, 255–62, 266–69, 275–76, 321

Tomonaga’s, 259–61

Quantum Electrodynamics , 12

quantum mechanics, 13, 55–56, 70–77, 88–89

causality and, 7, 40, 70–72, 112, 243, 371

chemistry and, 40, 87

diffusion and, 174–75, 249

exclusion principle, 6–7, 255, 258

infinities in, 4, 49, 99–100, 231–32, 238

Klein-Gordon equation, 74

least action in, 121, 127–29, 131–32, 138–39, 147, 247–50

mysteriousness of, 40, 44–45, 54, 70–71, 114,436–37

philosophy and, 40, 70–72, 243–44, 371–72, 375

probability in, 72–75, 88, 128, 132, 246–49, 275, 393–

94, 433

two-slit experiment, 247–48, 250, 366

uncertainty and, 8, 70, 72–73, 75, 78, 89, 258, 321, 361, 429–30, 435

wave-particle duality, 7, 18–19, 40, 54, 80, 250, 261–62

quarks, 9, 390–96, 402–3, 432

quasiparticles, 300–302

Quine, W. V., 371

Quintilian, 313

Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 232, 233, 386

anti-Semitism and, 53

at Columbia, 232, 234, 251

Feynman and, 144, 296

at Pocono, 255

at Radiation Laboratory, 91, 137, 141

Schwinger and, 215–16, 243

at Trinity, 154, 156

radar, 91, 124, 136–38, 209, 216

radiation resistance, 109–11, 114

radiation science, 196–200

radio, 17–19, 46–47

ham, 282

rainbow, 130, 434

Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 238

Rand, Sal y, 41

Reagan, Ronald W., 416

reality, 38, 44–45, 101, 243–44, 375, 395

Reichstag, 167

relativity, 71, 99–100

general, 42, 74–75, 115, 316, 329, 351—54

popularization of, 42–43, 45, 429–30

quantum electrodynamics and, 99–100

renormalization, 239–40, 251–52, 259–62, 270, 282, 330, 377

qualms over, 347–49, 378, 380

Resnick, Judith, 415

Reviews of Modern Physics , 80, 249

Rhodes, Richard, 159

Richter, Charles, 281–82

Ride, Sal y, 417

Riordan, Michael, 389–90

risk, 197, 427–28

Ritz, Walter, 118–19

Robertson, H. P., 130

Roethke, Theodore, 412–13

Rogers, Wil , 281

Rogers, Wil iam P., 416–17, 419–23, 426

Rome, University of, 166

Röntgen, Wilhelm, 99

Rosen, Nathan, 216

Rothstein, E. V., 412

Royal Air Force, 236–37

Rubáiyát (Omar Khayyám), 343

Russel , Henry Norris, 115

Ruth, Babe, 43–44, 327

Rutherford, Ernest, 71

S matrix, 267, 329

safecracking, 15, 189–90

Sakharov, Andrei, 297

Salam, Abdus, 405, 431

Salieri, Antonio, 322

Salk, Jonas, 133

samba, 286, 340

Sands, Matthew, 343, 363

Schein, Marcel, 304

Schrieffer, Robert, 303

Schrödinger, Erwin, 73–75, 88, 128, 232, 242, 246, 367

cat, 243

Schrödinger equation, 73, 88–89, 102, 129, 146–47, 174, 249, 301, 436

Schweber, Silvan S., 348, 386–87

Schwinger, Julian, 158, 215–16, 227, 243, 295, 309, 395

childhood, 48–49

early papers, 48–49

Feynman and, 16, 49, 252, 377–79

Nobel Prize, 377–79

at Pocono, 5–6, 255–58

quantum electrodynamics and, 239, 241, 251–53, 255–

63, 266–69, 271, 275–77, 279–80, 321, 347, 367

at Shelter Island, 233–34

at Shelter Island, 233–34

students, 276–77, 378

science

as career, 52–53

creativity in, 314, 321, 324–26, 409

experimental attitude, 14–16, 19

explanation in, 29

laws of, 13–14

military financing of, 4, 209–11, 294–95, 385

religion and, 31–32, 58–60

Science , 145

science fiction, 121, 235, 255, 299

Scientific American , 104, 414