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INDEX

Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), 182

absorber theory, see Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics

action, 59–61, 131–32, 226, 229, 247–48. See also least action, principle of Planck’s constant and, 71

action at a distance, 101–2, 128

Aldrich, Arnold, 419–20

algebra, 29–30, 33–34, 36, 183, 362, 401

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 124

Alpert, Richard, 406

American Broadcasting Corporation, 378

American Museum of Natural History (New York), 25

American Physical Society, 53

meetings, 40, 117, 252, 270, 301, 354–55, 411–12

Ampère, Andrè-Marie, 320

analogy, 404

Anderson, Carl, 81, 253

anthropology, 287, 290

antigravity, 295, 407

antimatter, 7, 122, 253–54, 305, 334, 407

and time reversal, 82, 123, 258, 272–73

anti-Semitism, 23, 49, 53, 62, 84–85, 167, 233

Archimedes, 315

Aristotle, 359

Armstrong, Neil, 417, 423

Army, United States, 137, 182, 414–15

Feynman as consultant, 295

Los Alamos and, 161, 187, 192–93, 198–99

Oppenheimer and, 158–59

secrecy and, 166, 169

Ashkin, Julius, 192

Associated Press, 378

astrology, 373–74

athletics, 327–28

atom, 36–39, 58–59, 114. See also hydrogen; uranium

models of, 5, 71–72, 95, 99, 241–43

nucleus, 9, 79–80, 89–90, 130, 264, 307, 392

atomic bomb. See also Los Alamos

Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168

chain reaction, 161–63, 172–73, 197

computation, 175–82, 201

dragon experiment, 196

effect on physics, 4, 203, 207–11, 216, 232, 294–95, 376, 431

guilt over, 3, 156, 203, 207–9, 213, 263–64