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

scientists

aging of, 347

as children, 17, 19

as craftsmen, 321–22

as nerds, 44, 63

patriotism of, 137

public view of, 40–42, 44, 203

Scobee, Francis, 415–16

Segrè, Emilio, 198–99

seismology, 281–82

Selective Service, 222–25, 297

Serber, Robert, 163, 168–69, 173

sexual politics, 287–91,411–12

Shaaray Tefila, 23

Shakespeare, Wil iam, 313, 314, 317, 325, 328

Shelter Island conference (1948), 232–34

Shockley, Wil iam, 85, 137

Siegel, Carl Ludwig, 98

simplicity, see nature, simplicity in

Sitwel , Edith, 106

Slater, John C, 40, 53–55, 67–68, 83–91, 94, 301, 366

Slotin, Louis, 196–97

Slotnick, Murray, 270–72, 282

Smith, Lloyd, 263

Smith, Michael, 415

Smyth, Harry D., 84, 137, 140, 144, 149–50, 164, 227

Snow, C. P., 9–10

solid-state physics, see physics

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 166

South Pacific , 308

Soviet Academy of Science, 297–98

Soviet Union, 6, 191, 278, 296–98, 340–41

space, generalized conceptions of, 76, 507

space shuttle, see Challenger

space travel, 218–19, 340–41, 374, 414–28

space-time, 7, 74, 109, 124, 152, 246–49, 255, 272–75, 355, 351, 354

world-lines in, 121–22

spectroscopy, 55, 85, 254

Spellbound (Hitchcock), 225

spin, 75, 80, 99, 228–51, 240, 242, 282, 350, 356–57, 375, 399

Sputnik, 340–41,414

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 391–95

Stanwyck, Barbara, 44

State Department, United States, 285, 298, 341

Stone, Arthur, 104

strangeness, 509–10, 360

Stratton, Julius A., 55, 55–56

Strauss, Lewis L., 295–96

streptomycin, 195–96

string theory, 455

stroboscope, 77

strong interaction, 507, 509–10, 350, 354, 392–95

Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 521–22

Stückelberg, Ernst, 272–75

SU (3), 387, 389–91, 455–54

Sudarshan, E. C. C, 357–58, 411

superconductivity, 299–505

superfluidity, 9, 298–505

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! , 11, 409–11

surface tension, 501

Sykes, Christopher, 369

symmetry, 258, 255, 506, 509–10, 361

breaking, 389–90, 452, 455

isospin, 506

left-right, 506, 350–55, 358–40

spin, 229

time, 111–14, 118–20

Szilard, Leo, 156, 160

technology

attitudes toward, 41, 257, 406, 416

attitudes toward, 41, 257, 406, 416

influence on theory, 41, 71, 108, 124

telescope, 27, 77, 120, 281, 284–85

television, 45, 47, 520, 346, 372, 416

Tel er, Edward, 255, 255

cold war and, 341

Feynman and, 6–7, 157, 224–25

Hungarian conspiracy, 136

hydrogen bomb, 204, 258, 296

at Los Alamos, 166–69, 175, 197–98

Oppenheimer and, 166–69, 296

Schwinger and, 216

at Trinity, 153

Tetrode, H., 120

Theory of Fundamental Processes , 12

thermodynamics, 88, 126, 174, 355, 361, 365

Thinking Machines Corporation, 454

Thomson, J. J., 42–45

Thome, Kip S., 404

thought experiment, 107–8, 245, 247–49, 355

3M Company, 406

Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 416

time

philosophy of, 109, 125–28

reversibility, 7, 82, 108–12, 118–20, 125, 255–54, 258, 272–74

Time , 379

Time-Life Films, 407

Tiomno, Jayme, 278

Tokyo University, 260

Tolman, Richard, 144

Tomonaga, Shin’ichiro, 259–61, 267, 377–579

Townsend Harris High School (New York), 48

Treasure Island (Stevenson), 65

triboluminescence, 285

Trinity test, 6, 65–66, 155–57, 205

Truman, Harry S, 209

tuberculosis, 155–55, 149–50, 194–96

Tübingen, University of, 167

Tuck, Helen, 385

Tuckerman, Bryant, 104

Tukey, John, 104–5

turbulence, 9, 298, 502, 450–51, 454, 436

UCLA Medical Center, 405, 457–58

UFO’s, 375–74

Ulam, Stanislaw, 155, 168, 437

uncertainty

in computation, 175–74

of knowledge, 5, 15, 29, 67, 126, 195, 285, 371–75, 438

in quantum mechanics, 8, 70, 72–73, 75, 78, 89, 258, 321, 361, 429–30, 435

Union Carbide, 141

unitarity, 7, 258

United Nations, 339

uranium

atom, 94–95

bomb design, 170–72

critical mass calculations, 168–69

diffusion in, 169–73

hydride, 173

isotope separation, 136, 139–46

practical uses, 218–19

predetonation of, 6, 168–69

radiation danger, 195–200

reactors, 157–58, 161–65

Urey, Harold, 144

V-A theory, see weak interaction

Val arta, Manuel S., 81–82, 215

Verne, Jules, 235

Vinogradov, I. M., 236

visualization, see physics, visualization in V-particles, 309–10

Watson, James, 349, 386–87

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

weak interaction, 9, 309–10, 330, 334–39

Wegener, Alfred, 321

Weinberg, Steven, 101, 348, 404, 431, 435

Weiner, Charles, 409

Weisskopf, Victor, 66–67, 167–69, 175, 185, 203, 232, 241, 251–53, 309, 330, 334, 352, 382–83, 403

Welton, Theodore (T. A.), 51–52, 56, 73–79, 169–71, 173, 183, 228, 325–26

Wentzel, Gregor, 272

Wentzel, Gregor, 272

Weyl, Hermann, 18, 52

What Do You Care What Other People Think?, 11

Wheeler, John Archibald, 93–96, 102, 124–25, 141, 146, 233, 255, 258–59

Feynman and, 96, 98–99, 106, 108, 116, 130, 147, 148, 250, 362, 380

fission and, 94–95, 139

Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics, 110–15, 117–29, 147, 215, 246, 253–54, 278, 333, 381

Whitehead, Alfred North, 366

Whitman, Walt, 319

Whitney, Eli, 319

Wiener, Norbert, 172

Wigner, Eugene, 53, 94, 96, 114–15, 116, 117, 130–31, 136, 137, 144, 146, 148, 184

Wilbur, Richard, 37

Wil iams, Ted, 327

Wil s, A. P., 56

Wilson, Robert R.

at Cornel , 226–27

Feynman and, 130, 139–40

isotron, 141–44, 157–58, 160

in Manhattan Project, 136–37, 156, 208

on modern physics, 209–10

Wheeler and, 93–94

Wisconsin State Journal , 43–44

Wolfe, Thomas, 84

Wolfe, Tom, 407

World’s Fair, 40–41, 260

World War I, 77

World War I , 3–4, 84, 128, 237–38

aftermath, 208

scientists’ preparations for, 136–38

Wu, Chien Shiung, 334–35, 337

W. W. Norton and Company, 411

X rays, 18, 55, 99, 133

Yale lock, 15, 188, 297

Yale University, 46, 97, 225, 300–301, 308

Yang, Chen Ning, 333–34, 336–37

Yang-Mil s theory, 329, 353, 387

Yeager, Chuck, 417

Yukawa, Hideki, 259–60, 282

Zeitschrift für Physik , 120

Zeleny, John, 44–45

Ziman, John, 371

Zweig, George, 390–91, 394, 396

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Il ustration 1—courtesy of the American Institute of Physics; Il ustration 2—Robin Brickman; Il ustration 3—Gardner 1989; Il ustration 4—Robin Brickman; Il ustration 5—

Wheeler and Feynman 1945; Il ustration 6—courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology; Il ustration 7—

Victor Weisskopf and E. Wigner, “Berechnung der natürlichen Linienbreite auf Grund der Diracschen Lichttheorie,” Zeitschrift für Physik 63 (1930); Il ustration 8

—Robin Brickman; Il ustration 9—Robin Brickman; Il ustration 10—Dyson 1949a; Il ustration 11—Stückelberg 1941; Il ustration 12—Feynman 1949b; Il ustration 13—

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