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graduation, 91–92, 148
honorary degrees, 148, 384
illness, 401–4, 408, 410, 417, 437–38
investigation of, 296–97
irresponsibility, 181, 200, 386, 388
lecturing, 114–15
marriages, 151, 292, 346
Mexico house, 379, 402
money and, 98, 192, 349, 406–7
Nobel Prize, 9, 49, 375–83
“Notebook of Things I Don’t Know About,”130
obituary, 437
parents and, 25–30, 91, 149–51, 215–16, 220–21
patents of, 15, 218
physical intuition, 131, 142, 243–45, 302–3, 325–26
poetry and, 7–8, 31–32, 69, 105, 244, 373–74, 412–13, 436–37
politics, 292, 297
psychiatry and, 223–25
radios and, 17–19, 46–47
rationality, 70, 115–16, 220–22
religion and, 22–23, 31–32, 65, 84–85, 115, 220–21, 372–73
reputation, 3, 9–12, 36, 51, 96, 129–31, 184
rhythmic sense, 16, 65, 78, 106, 191, 243, 277, 286
safecracking, 15, 189–90
scientific work computing, 6, 138, 175–82, 190–91, 198, 201, 329, 407–8, 414–15, 435
cosmic rays, 81–82, 215
electrodynamics (Wheeler-Feynman), 110–15, 117–29, 147, 215, 246, 253–54, 381
forces in molecules, 9, 86–90
genetics, 14, 349–51
gravitation, 9, 120, 316, 351–54, 434
partons, 9, 390–96
path integrals, 132, 174, 229–31, 246–51, 254–55, 275, 349, 354
predetonation, 6, 168–69
quantum electrodynamics, 6–9, 127–29, 146–48, 245–52, 258, 267–77
quantum mechanics, 74–76
superfluidity, 9, 298–303
tiny machines, 14, 354–56, 407
weak interactions, 9, 335–39
and the sixties, 405–7
socialization of, 26–27, 32, 45–46, 62–64, 97–98
sports and, 32, 63, 401
storytelling, 11, 25, 28–29, 46–47, 222–25
theses, 9, 86–90, 138–41, 146–48, 215, 229, 246, 249
war work, 137–38. See also isotron project; atomic bomb
women and, 3, 5, 32, 45–46, 63–64, 97, 192, 200, 212, 277, 286–93, 342–46, 411–12
Feynman diagrams, 7–8, 11, 270–76, 282, 303, 330, 335, 348, 352, 394, 437
acceptance of, 275–78
precursors, 104, 130–31
Schwinger and, 276–77
Feynman-Hellmann theorem, 89—90
Feynman Lectures on Physics, 12, 21–22, 37–38, 145, 357–64, 407, 435–36
Field, Richard, 402–3
field, 18–19,48–49, 121, 139, 260
derived from quantum mechanics, 368
Feynman’s aversion to, 100–101, 109–10, 146–47, 250, 380
gravitational, 74, 351–52
neutrino, 337
particles and, 102, 132, 275
parton, 391–95
paths of, 275
visualization of, 102, 242, 245–46
field theory, 48–49, 118, 146, 250, 256, 261–62, 275, 279–80, 326, 348, 381, 402
decline of, 330
fission, nuclear, 79, 95, 136, 146, 161–63, 168, 172–73
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 97
flavor (particle property), 229, 390, 403
Fleming, Alexander, 133, 329
Flexagons, 9, 103–4, 131
“The Flight of the Bumblebee,” 15
Fonda, Henry, 44
Ford, Henry, 40
Fort Knox, 164
Fowler, Willy, 316
Frankel, Stanley, 180
Frankford Arsenal (Philadelphia), 137–38
free will, 431
French, Bruce, 253–54
Freud, Sigmund, 318, 326
friction, 9, 29, 299–302, 356, 361, 398
Frisch, Otto, 154, 203
Fuchs, Klaus, 6, 185, 187, 190, 191, 201, 296–97
functional roots, 137
Gardner, Martin, 104
gauge invariance, 256
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 311
Gell-Mann, Margaret, 346
Gell-Mann, Murray, 232, 348, 351, 382
background, 307–9
at Caltech, 311, 338, 340–41, 346–47, 402, 405, 407
Feynman and, 11, 310–11, 315, 332–39, 346–47, 354, 367, 387–89, 411, 434
Nobel Prize, 376–77, 396
parity, 332–35
quarks, 390–96
on Schwinger, 277, 308
on solid-state physics, 14
strangeness, 309–10, 360
SU(3), 387, 389–91
weak interactions, 335–39
Gelman, Benedict, 308
General Electric, 141, 223
general relativity, see relativity
genetics, 14, 133, 293, 349–51, 355, 358
Geneva, 339–40
genius, 8, 36, 311–29
American, 318–19
disappearance of, 312, 327–29
Edison as, 319–20
imagination in, 313, 324–25
literature of, 312–15
madness and, 314–19
as “magician,” 10–11, 312, 315–17, 324
mythologizing of, 10–11, 43–44, 315, 322
originality, 10, 324–26
physical basis of, 311–12
physicists’ view of, 8, 322–24
rationalization of, 315–16
Gerard, Alexander, 314
Germany, 22, 42, 77–78, 97, 128, 140, 167, 260, 414
Gershwin, George, 186
Gilbert, William, 68
Glashow, Sheldon, 405
God, 317, 318, 322, 372–73,