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New York University, 34
New Yorker, 399
Newman, Thomas H., 356
Newton, Isaac, 38, 41, 57–61, 109, 363
forces and, 88, 111, 228
as genius, 314–15, 317, 319–20, 328–29
laws of, 29, 59–61, 106, 147, 365, 368, 375
originality and, 10
time and, 119
Niels Bohr Institute, 4, 5, 93, 279
Nishijima, Kazuhiko, 310, 360
Nobel Prize, 5, 23, 49, 166, 209, 242, 375–82, 396
Bethe’s, 166, 377
Bohr’s, 242, 375–76
Chandrasekhar’s, 316
effect on winners, 381–83
Einstein’s, 375–77
Feynman’s, 9, 349, 375–83, 401, 408, 417
Fleming’s, 133
Gell-Mann’s, 390, 396
Lamb’s, 234
nomination by Feynman, 396
Oppenheimer and, 5, 159, 377
prestige of, 374–76
rule of three, 377
Yang and Lee’s, 334
nonlinear mathematics, 164, 174, 178–81
nuclear physics, see physics
nucleus, 9, 79–80, 130, 264, 307, 392
molecular forces, 89–90
uranium, 95
Oak Ridge, 141, 165, 197–200, 205, 209, 228
Oersted, Hans Christian, 320
Office of Naval Research, 209, 211, 294
Olum, Paul, 141–42, 145, 158, 162, 178, 190
Omar Khayyám, 343
Omni, 396
Onizuka, Ellison, 415
Onsager, Lars, 300–301, 316
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 4–6, 24, 53, 85, 158–60, 162–64, 166, 168, 175, 185, 187, 198, 233, 239, 255, 258, 260–61, 270–71, 330, 333
Dyson and, 259, 266–70, 377
Feynman and, 6, 85, 144, 184, 190, 199–200, 204, 226–27, 257–59, 266–70
Nobel Prize, 5, 159, 377
post-bomb psychology, 3, 203, 207–10
Schwinger and, 158, 216, 234, 252, 257–59, 266–70
security trials, 5, 210, 292, 295–96
at Trinity, 154–56
originality, see genius
out-of-body experiences, 14, 406
Pais, Abraham, 99, 228 n, 233, 307, 309–10, 332–33
Pale Fire (Nabokov), 243
Palmer Physical Laboratory (Princeton University), 107–8
Pan American Airways, 278, 287
Paris Match, 286
parity, 330–35, 338–40
Park, David, 10 n, 61, 124, 366
particle accelerators. See also CERN; Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
early, 95–96, 107
postwar, 210–11, 226, 255–56, 295, 304, 309, 332, 389–91, 435–36
Soviet, 298
technique, 16, 305–6
in uranium separation, 139–45
particles. See also electron; photon; etc.
associated production, 307, 309
conceptions of, 5, 89, 123, 242–43, 256, 261–62, 275, 283, 307, 369, 375
fundamental, 58, 283
inertia and, 175
interaction of, 48, 102, 110–12, 117–18, 121, 139, 147
paths, 7, 57–61, 109, 121, 128, 132, 171, 229–31, 247–49, 255, 258
proliferation of, 114, 256, 283, 304–5, 309, 330, 389
quasi-, 300–302
scattering, 79–82, 174, 256
virtual, 273–75
waves and, 7, 18–19, 73, 80, 99, 243, 247
partons, 9, 387–96
Pasadena (Calif.), 82, 277, 281–82
Huntington Hotel, 347
path integrals, 246–51, 254–55, 275
in beta decay, 336
development of, 132, 174, 229–31
first presentation, 258
in gravitation, 354
in masers, 349
revival of, 354, 404
Pauli, Wolfgang, 117–18, 127, 216, 242, 257, 269. See also exclusion principle
on Dirac, 58
“ganz falsch,” 115, 404
on parity, 334
Pauling, Linus, 40, 293
Peierls, Rudolf, 169
penicillin, 133, 196, 329
periodic table, 294, 389
Phi Beta Delta (MIT), 63–64, 69, 74, 117, 374
Phillips, Henry (maternal grandfather), 24, 26
Phillips, Johanna (née Helinksy, maternal grandmother), 24
philosophy, 58–60, 364–75, 391
atoms and, 36–38, 67–70
Feynman and, 13–14, 182, 232, 364–75, 397–98, 400, 429, 436
quantum mechanics and, 54, 88–89, 429–30
time and, 109, 123–26, 243–44
photon, 54, 120–21, 242–43, 246, 268, 270, 273–75, 394
Physical Review, 6, 48, 216, 261, 266, 275, 310, 316, 381
of the blind men, 435
Feynman and, 76, 82, 90, 249, 271–72, 338
Feynman diagrams in, 283–84
women in, 289
Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion, 48, 128
physics, 48. See also quantum electrodynamics, quantum mechanics
American, 44–45, 53–55
anti-Semitism in, 53, 84–85
as career, 52–53, 91
conferences
Cambridge, Mass. (1941), 117
Chicago (1933), 40
Cornell (1963), 123–26
New York (1948), 252
New York (1949), 270
New York (1955), 301
Oldstone-on-the-Hudson (1950), 271
Pasadena (1959), 354–55
Pocono (1948), 4–8, 255–61, 288, 304, 384
Princeton (1946), 226
“Rochester” (1950–57), 304, 310,