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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