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liquid helium, see superfluidity
Littlewood, J. E., 236, 238
lock picking, 15, 187–88, 297, 340
Lombroso, Cesare, 318
Long Island Rail Road, 20
Lorentz, Hendrik A., 72
Los Alamos, 3, 6, 8, 9, 49, 185–87, 190, 204–5, 216, 218
choice of site, 159–60
computing at, 164, 175–82, 190–91, 198, 201
postwar, 208–10, 212, 234
security, 161–62, 187, 191–92, 237
theoretical division, 165–66, 169, 172
Los Angeles Times, 437
Love in America (Cohn), 192
Lovingood, Judson A., 419
McAuliffe, Christa, 415
McCarran Immigration Act, 297
MacInnes, Duncan, 232
McLellan, William, 356
McMillin Theater (Columbia University), 252
McNair, Ronald, 415
McSherry, Rose, 263, 266
Magic City, The (Nesbit), 237
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 134
Mailer, Norman, 326
Manhattan Project, see atomic bomb; Los Alamos
Marchant calculator, see calculating machines
Marshak, Robert, 256, 337–38, 411
Marshall Space Flight Center, 417, 426
Marx, Groucho, 9, 405
mass, 4–5, 99, 231, 239–40, 251, 262, 272, 283
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 49, 51–91
curriculum, 66
cyclotron, 107
fraternities, 62–64, 69, 74, 117, 374
machine shops, 77–78
physics at, 53–56, 66–67, 79–80
Radiation Laboratory, 91, 136–38, 141, 158, 166, 209, 216, 234
senior theses, 82–83, 86
social life, 62–64
mathematics, 25, 47, 52, 83, 155, 235
in biology, 132
education, 399–401
Feynman and, 27, 32, 34–36, 102–5, 129, 182–83, 217–18
music and, 65
Nobel Prize and, 377
nonlinear, 164, 174, 178–81
partitions, 238
physics vs., 52–54, 56, 102–3, 145, 238
probability theory, 34, 166, 168–69, 197, 249
recreational, 34–36, 103–5
Maupertuis, Pierre-Louis Moreau de, 59, 61
Mautner, Leonard, 23, 34
Maxwell, James Clerk, 49, 101, 110–11, 118, 262, 368, 431
Maya, 292, 367
Mayhew, Nye, 62
Mayo Clinic, 195–96, 219
Mead, Carver, 434
Mead, Margaret, 287
medicine
Feynman and, 125–27, 194–96, 402
scientific method in, 132–34, 194–96
tuberculosis, 133–35, 149–50
Melchior, Lauritz, 328
Melville, Herman, 319
Menge, Edward J. v. K., 52–53
Merton, Robert K., 329
meson, 146, 229, 250, 256, 269, 270–71, 282–83, 304, 309, 333, 336
Metallurgical Laboratory (Chicago), 146, 157–58, 161, 164
Metropolis, Nicholas, 180–81, 185
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), 46
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 328
Michigan State University, 292
microbiology, 133, 293, 329, 349–51, 355, 358
Mill, John Stuart, 66
Miller, Glenn, 62
Millikan, Robert, 33, 81, 306, 358
Milton, 314
mind, see consciousness
miniaturization, see nanotechnology
Minkowski, Hermann, 70, 109, 122–23
miracles, 58, 362, 372–73
Miramar Palace Hotel (Rio de Janeiro), 282, 287
Miranda, Carmen, 278
mirror, 331. See also symmetry
Möbius strip, 67
Moore, Jesse, 419–20
Morrison, Philip, 10 n, 157, 212, 263, 285, 407
Morse, Philip M., 53, 55, 76, 78–80, 83–84, 86, 91
Morse, Samuel, 319
Morton, Donald, 404
Morton Thiokol, 419, 421, 425
Mount Wilson Observatory, 293
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 319, 322–23, 325, 328
Mulloy, Lawrence, 422–23
Munich, University of, 52, 53, 166
music, 14, 15, 65, 285–86, 319, 322–23, 328
Nabokov, Vladimir, 243
nanotechnology, 14, 77, 354–56, 407
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 415–28
National Academy of Sciences, 259, 383–84
National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution), 421
National Geographic, 46
National Research Council, 93, 216, 428
National Science Foundation, 210
National Youth Administration, 76
nature
laws of, 57–61, 101, 109, 244, 265, 294, 299, 317, 325, 338, 365–67, 411
simplicity in, 13–14, 22, 59–60, 78, 260, 432–38
Nazi Party, 167
Neddermeyer, Seth, 170
Nesbit, Edith, 237
Neumann, John von, 115, 117, 202, 255
early computing, 181–82
fluid models, 299
and irresponsibility, 181, 200
mental calculating, 175
neuropsychology, 312, 321
neutrino, 283, 335–38
neutron, 78–80, 94–95, 114, 136, 140, 157, 161–63, 168, 172–75, 198, 270, 305, 307, 335, 392
New York Academy of Sciences, 232
New York City, 20–23, 27, 41, 48–49
public schools, 30–32, 48
New York Herald Tribune, 233
New York Times, 42,