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Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [314]

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Feynman and, 31–32, 115, 220–21, 372–73

proofs of, 58–59, 67–68

scientists and, 58–60

Gödel, Kurt, 295, 429

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 66, 236

Goldberger, Marvin, 293, 404

Goodstein, David, 12 n, 363, 386–87

Gordon, Walter, 73

Gould, Stephen Jay, 327

Graduate Record Examination, 83–84

Graham, William R., 417–21

gravitation, 9, 42, 56, 74–75, 111, 115, 120, 309, 316, 351–54, 365

Groves, Leslie R., 143–44, 159–60

Grünewald, Matthias, 65–66

gyroscope, 362

hadron, 392–95

Hamiltonian method, 128, 226

Handler, Philip, 384

Hardy, Godfrey Harold, 236

Harvard University, 83, 85, 97, 141–42, 160, 182, 216, 276–77, 308, 378, 404

Harvey, Thomas S., 311–12

Harvey, William, 68

Hawking, Stephen, 322, 430–32

Heisenberg, Werner. See also uncertainty in quantum mechanics

atomic bomb and, 140

cosmic rays and, 82

Feynman and, 404

quantum mechanics, 72–73, 75, 88, 102, 232, 246, 269, 367, 391

S matrix, 267, 329

Tomonaga and, 260

on visualization, 5, 242

youth of, 52, 78

helium, see superfluidity

hexaflexagons, see flexagons

Hibbs, Albert, 415

Hiroshima, 156, 203–4, 210, 218, 237, 263

history of science, 11, 41, 279–80, 313–14, 320, 322, 380

Hitchcock, Alfred, 223

Hofstadter, Douglas, 404

Holton, Gerald, 245, 385–86

Homer, 313, 314, 317

Hoover, J. Edgar, 296

Hopfield, John, 434

Hubble, Edwin, 124

Hughes Aircraft Company, 406, 415

Huxley, Thomas, 66

Huygens, Christiaan, 250

hydrodynamics, 163, 299

hydrogen, 72–74, 79, 94, 161–62, 164, 173, 198, 234

hydrogen bomb, 6, 204, 258, 278, 296, 365

Idlewild Field (Kennedy International Airport), 20

inertia, 29, 174–75, 259

infinities, see quantum mechanics

Institute for Advanced Study, 94, 106, 227, 266–70,, 295, 309, 346, 377

intelligence tests, 30

interference, 111–12, 247, 250

International Business Machines Corporation, 179–82, 198, 407, 414

Interscholastic Algebra League (New York), 32–34, 83

isotopic spin, 282, 306–7, 387

isotron project, 139–45, 157

Jacobs, Morrie, 47

Jarvis, Gregory, 415

Jehle, Herbert, 128–29, 136

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 281, 404, 414–15, 417–18

Johns Hopkins University, 94

Johnson Space Center, 426

Jones, James, 327

Jornada del Muerto (N.M.), 154, 202

Judaism, 22–23, 27–28, 65, 85, 220–21

Kac, Mark, 10–11, 249, 315, 322–23

Kazin, Alfred, 21

Kemble, Edwin C, 53

Kennedy Space Center, 426

Keynes, John Maynard, 317

Klein-Gordon equation, 73–74, 336

Klein, Oskar, 73

knowledge. See also uncertainty

faith and, 37, 58, 221

false, 373–74, 407

fundamental, 14, 22, 357, 435–36

guilty, 3, 203, 207–10, 263–64

hoarded, 316–17

rote, 66, 283–84, 398–401

philosophy of, 357, 364–75, 429

practical, 14–16, 36, 68, 366

scarcity of, 47–48

secret, 210

stratification of, 9, 67, 372

Kuhn, Thomas S., 321–22

Kusch, Polykarp, 377

Kutyna, Donald J., 416, 419–23, 426

Kyōto University, 259–60

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 192

Lady Eve, The, 44

Lagrange, Joseph Louis, 59–61, 250

Lagrangian method, 60–61, 88, 128–32, 147, 170–71, 228

Lamb, Willis, 234, 239, 377

Lamb shift, 234, 239–40, 251–53, 260

Landau, Lev, 130, 239 n, 297, 298, 300–301

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de, 430

Laurence, William L., 40 n, 154–55 n

Lauritsen, Charles, 282

Lavatelli, Leo, 144 n

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 39

law, scientific, 29, 57–61, 101, 109, 244, 265, 294, 299, 317, 325, 338, 365–67, 411

lawn-sprinkler problem, 106–8

Lawrence, D. H., 237

Lawrence, Ernest O., 130, 136, 166, 226

calutron, 142–44

least action, principle of, 57–61, 228, 362, 366

Feynman’s first encounter, 60–61

in quantum mechanics, 121, 127–29, 131–32, 138–39, 147, 247–50

Lee, Tsung Dao, 333–34, 336–37

Leighton, Ralph, 409–10

Leighton, Robert B., 363

Levi-Civita, Tullio, 56

Lewine, Frances (cousin), 26, 438

Lewine, Pearl (Phillips) (aunt), 25, 26

Lewine, Ralph (uncle), 26

Lewine, Robert (cousin), 26

Lewis, Gilbert N., 120

light, 14, 30, 57–61, 71–72, 80–83, 100–1, 110–11, 120–21, 125–26, 247, 250, 259, 273, 284, 368, 373. See also photon; quantum electrodynamics

Lilly, John, 406

Lindemann, Ferdinand von, 52

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