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investigating commission, 416–17
launch, 415–16
O-rings, 418–23, 427–28
risk assessment, 427–28
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 316
chaos, 119, 182, 360, 430–31, 435–36
Character of Physical Law, 13, 364–71
Chaucer, 235
chemistry, 38–39, 67, 79, 86–90, 99, 264
quantum, 40, 87
Chicago, University of, 10, 41, 141, 146, 157–58, 161, 164, 282, 309, 386
honorary degree offer, 384
recruiting of Feynman, 294
Christian Century, 207
Citizen Kane (Welles), 236
City College of New York, 48, 215
clouds, 22, 80–81, 154
Cobb, Ty, 327
Cohn, David L., 192 n
Coleman, Sidney, 10 n, 323–24, 389, 405
color (light), 130, 131, 321, 357, 362
color (particle property), 229, 387, 390, 402–3, 432
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School (New York), 307, 309
Columbia University, 49, 144, 180, 252, 267, 309, 334, 337, 384
Rabi at, 53, 91, 232, 234
Schwinger at, 215–16
Commerce, Department of, United States, 296
complementarity, 40, 54
Compton, Karl, 55, 94, 138
computing, 6, 175–82, 329, 348, 354–55, 435
analog, 137
ENIAC, 182
Condon, Edward, 54–55
consciousness, 68–69, 123–24, 243, 321, 431
continental drift, 321
Cook, Richard, 423–24
Coolidge, Albert Sprague, 85
Cooper, Leon, 303
Copyright Office, United States, 328
Coriolis force, 37
Cornell University, 3, 53, 123
Bethe at, 53, 80, 166, 225–27, 238, 277
Dyson at, 7, 238–39
Feynman at, 10, 204, 214–22, 225–27, 263, 277–78, 286, 288, 293–94, 365
postwar growth, 210–12, 221
women at, 212
cosmic rays, 81–82, 98, 114, 168, 215, 253, 304, 332
cosmology, 112–14, 123–26, 293, 353–54
Crease, Robert, 433–34 n
Crick, Francis, 349, 351, 382
current algebra, 328, 338, 393
Cutler, Monarch, 82–83
Cvitanović, Predrag, 279–80 n
cyclotron, 95–96, 107–8, 136, 160, 210–11, 305–6
Daghlian, Harry, 196
Darwin, Charles, 207
Dawes, Rufus C, 41
Day, Edmund Ezra, 210
Delbrück, Max, 293, 340, 349
Depression, 41, 46, 53, 55, 77, 281, 308
Descartes, René, 58–59, 67–68
diffusion, 79, 80, 171–75, 182, 249
and entropy, 119
in uranium separation, 139–40, 144
DiMaggio, Joe, 328
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
antimatter, 122, 253
at Cambridge, 53–54, 166, 236
Feynman and, 7, 184, 226, 228–29, 437
as genius, 43–44, 322
history of quantum mechanics, 72–73
Lagrangian in quantum mechanics, 128–29, 131–32, 226
parity and, 334
at Pocono, 5, 7, 255–58
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 56, 76, 99–100, 260
religion and, 58
renormalization and, 347–49
Schwinger and, 48–49
Slater and, 53–54
Dirac equation, 5, 73, 229–30, 234, 261–62, 336–38
discovery, 284, 313–14, 321
individual vs. multiple, 329
myths of, 279, 315, 380
DNA, 14, 293, 349–351, 355, 386
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), 156
Don Juan, 319
Double Helix, The (Watson), 386
DuBridge, Lee, 295, 415
Duff, William, 313
Dyson, Freeman J., 298
background, 235–38
at Cornell, 235, 238
Feynman and, 3–4, 7, 240–41, 244, 249–51, 262–66, 273, 323, 368, 424
genius and, 317, 320–21, 323, 328
Nobel Prize, 377–78
Oppenheimer and, 269–70
quantum electrodynamics, 239–40, 252, 259, 263, 266–72, 274, 279–80, 307, 309, 348, 367
Schwinger and, 261, 266–68, 271
Dyson, George, 235, 267
Dyson, Mildred, 235–36
Dyson graph, 269, 273
earthquake science, 281–82
Eastman, George, 55
Eddington, Arthur, 52, 75, 109, 433
Edgerton, Harold, 77
Edison, Thomas Alva, 40–44, 54–55, 319–20, 329
Einstein, Albert, 5, 9–10, 45, 54, 56, 70, 112, 120, 123, 129, 209, 244, 264, 281, 324, 386, 433–34
atomic bomb, 136
Bohr and, 40
brain, 311–12
ether, 18, 101–2
Feynman and, 98, 115, 117, 118–19, 257
legend, 41–44, 311–13, 320–22, 326
Nobel Prize, 375–77
photoelectric effect, 71, 377
on Princeton, 97
on quantum mechanics, 40, 45, 215, 243, 347
relativity, 42–43, 71, 72, 255, 329, 351–52, 365, 368, 375, 429–30
religion and, 58, 372
retirement, 118–19
Einstein Award, 295–96, 343, 378–79
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 296, 297, 340
electric light, 319, 329
electricity, 320
electron, 4, 5, 33, 71–73, 79, 86, 114, 122–23, 127, 231–32, 283, 306
-electron interaction, 48–49, 273
-neutron interaction, 270–71
-photon interaction,