Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [310]
Hiroshima, 156, 203–4, 210, 218, 237, 263
isotron project, 139–45
Nagasaki, 156, 203, 210
official history, 164
origins of, 95, 136, 139
postwar consequences of, 156, 207–11, 213, 218, 233, 278, 294–95, 340, 431
practical difficulties, 163–65, 170–73, 181
predetonation, 6, 168–69
radioactivity, 197–99
Russian, 278, 297–98
space travel and, 218–19
theorists’ role, 155, 163–65, 173–74, 181
Trinity test, 6, 65–66, 153–57, 203
atomic energy, 218, 339
Atomic Energy Commission, 209, 211, 277, 295–96
AT&T Bell Laboratories, see Bell Telephone Laboratories
Auden, W. H., 7–8
aurora borealis, 27, 436, 437
Baade, Walter, 293
Baba Ram Das, see Alpert, Richard
Babbage, Charles, 180
Bacher, Robert F., 210–11, 277–78, 338
Bacon, Francis, 429
Bacon, Roger, 68, 314
bacteria, 349–51
Bader, Abram, 60–61, 362
Bainbridge, Kenneth, 155
Barber, Edwin, 411 n
Bardeen, John, 303
Barschall, Heinz, 96
Bartkey, Walter, 293
Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre, 318
Bayside Cemetery (New York), 26, 220–21
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 318
Beggs, James, 421, 427
Bell, Alexander Graham, 40, 319
Bell, Mary Louise (second wife), 287, 291–94
Bell Telephone Laboratories, 85, 137–38, 182, 354
Bergman, Ingrid, 223
Bernal, J. D., 315–16
Bernoulli, Daniel, 39
Bernstein, Jeremy, 277
Besicovitch, A. S., 236
beta decay, 272, 309, 330–39
Bethe, Hans, 53, 176–78, 216, 233, 255–59, 287, 386
background, 166–67, 289
consulting, 223
at Cornell, 204–5, 226–28, 269–70, 277, 278, 293–94
and Dyson, 235, 238–39, 266–67
and Feynman, 165–66, 169, 184, 212, 241, 249, 262, 296
as genius, 322
Lamb shift calculation, 239–40, 251–52
at Los Alamos, 165–69, 171, 173, 180, 198, 202–3
mental arithmetic, 14–15, 175–77
Nobel Prize, 377
nuclear physics, 80, 167
physical intuition, 166–67, 305
prewar research, 138
renormalization, 239–40, 252
Schwinger and, 216
Bethe, Henry, 241
Bethe, Rose, 202, 289
Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168
Bhagavad Gita, 155
Bhopal chemical disaster, 416
bikini, 339
bird watching, 28–29, 308, 388
Birge, Raymond T., 85, 184, 204
Bjorken, James D., 393–94
black hole, 93, 353
Blake, William, 318
Block, Martin, 333, 335
Bohr, Aage, 258
Bohr, Niels, 5, 10, 15, 41, 130, 243–44, 279–80, 292
atomic model, 38, 71–72, 99, 242
complementarity, 40, 54, 247
criticism of Feynman, 8, 226, 258
as genius, 322
liquid-drop model, 95, 139
at Los Alamos, 8, 257
Nobel Prize, 376
at Pocono, 5, 8, 255–58
Wheeler and, 93–95
Bondi, Hermann, 125–26
bootstrap model, 369–70
Boscovich, Ruggiero, 39
Boyle, Robert, 38–39
Braun, Wernher von, 414
Brazil
appeal to Americans, 278
Feynman in, 278, 282–87, 337, 341
physics in, 278, 283–84
Brewster’s Law, 283
Bridgman, Percy, 101
Broglie, Louis de, 73
Bronk, Detlev W., 383–84
Brookhaven National Laboratory for Nuclear Research, 53, 209
Cahn, Judah, 219–21
calculating, mental, 9–10, 33–36, 175–78, 328–29
calculating machines, 83, 124, 138, 176, 179–82, 355
California Institute of Technology, 281–82
Atheneum, 388
cafeteria, 12, 388
cosmic ray research, 81, 253
Einstein at, 281
Engineering and Science, 355–56
Feynman at, 277–78, 282–83, 293–94, 311, 338, 340–41, 349, 357–63, 379, 398, 404, 406–7, 412, 435, 437
Gell-Mann at, 311, 338, 340–41, 407
genetics, 349–51
government financing, 386, 406
growth of, 277, 281–82
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 282
liquid helium experiments, 302
nuclear physics, 281
physics colloquium, 404
physics teaching, 12, 277, 295, 357–63, 404–405
Physics X, 12, 398, 417
women at, 412
California, University of, at Berkeley, 53, 85, 130, 136, 141, 143, 163, 166, 184, 204, 209, 210, 216, 255–56
Cambridge University, 53, 159, 166, 236, 238, 315, 317
Case, Kenneth, 270–72, 282
Catskill Mountains (New York), 28
causality, 7, 40, 54, 70–72, 109, 112, 243, 365–66, 371
Cedarhurst (New York), 20–21, 23, 26, 45, 151
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, 278, 283–84
“Century of Progress” (1933 World’s Fair), 40–42
CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research), 381, 383
Challenger (space shuttle), 11, 145, 415–28
background, 425