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San Francisco (1972), 411–12
Shelter Island (1948), 232–34
Solvay (1961), 347
Warsaw (1962), 353–54
elementary particle, 9, 16, 294–95
elite, 4–5
experiment in, 16, 234, 305–6
final laws, 432–34
generations of, 8
grand unified theories, 431–34
heroes in, 8
history, 279–80, 380
as human activity, 364
in Japan, 259–61
journals, 48
language of, 14, 229, 295, 390, 431
military and, 4, 209–11, 294–95, 385
models in, 86, 210, 243–44, 299, 367–68, 375, 437
nuclear, 40, 48, 67, 79–80, 94–96, 98, 130, 136–45, 163–75, 196–200, 209–11, 226
prewar growth, 98
solid-state, 14, 86–88, 298
teaching, 55–56, 357–59
unification, 7, 265–66
visualization in, 5, 7, 241–49, 255–56, 302–3, 325–26
women in, 289, 411–12
World War II and, 4
Physics Today, 259, 289, 384–85
Piaggio, H. T. H., 236
Picasso, Pablo, 326
pion, 304–5, 332–33, 336
Planck, Max, 71, 146
Plato, 36
Plutonium, 141, 164–65, 168, 170, 173, 196–9’
Pocono conference (1948), 4–8, 255–61, 288, 304, 384
Podolsky, Boris, 216
poetry, 7–8, 31–32, 69, 105, 244, 314, 373–74, 412–13, 436–37
poker, 182, 239
polaron, 349
polio, 133
Polkinghorne, John, 215 n, 334 n, 372
positron, see antimatter
Presbyterian Sanatorium (Albuquerque, N.M.), 3, 159, 170, 184, 192
Princeton University, 53, 58, 76, 96
bicentennial, 226
fellowships, 136
Feynman and, 83–85
Graduate College, 97, 102
laboratories, 106–8
oral examinations, 130
physics colloquium, 114–15, 117
tea, 97–98, 102–3, 130
war work, 141
probability, 79, 119, 373, 404
amplitude, 132, 246–49, 275, 393–94, 433
negative, 73
in quantum mechanics, 72–75, 128, 132, 246–49, 258, 275
risk and, 197, 427–28
theory of, 166, 168–69, 249
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 48
Prometheus, 203, 207–8
psychology, 19, 223–25, 255, 312–13, 321, 324, 362, 374–75, 405–6
Putnam competition, 83
Pythagoras, 41
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, 13
quantum chromodynamics, 402–4, 431
quantum electrodynamics, 6–9, 159, 242, 304, 330, 347–49, 377–80
accuracy of, 330, 348
crisis in, 99–100, 226, 234, 239
Dyson’s, 266–72, 377–78
early, 48–49
Feynman’s, 127–29, 146–48, 245–52, 258, 267–77, 311, 321, 380–81
“partons” of, 394
Schwinger’s, 251–52, 255–62, 266–69, 275–76, 321
Tomonaga’s, 259–61
Quantum Electrodynamics, 12
quantum mechanics, 13, 55–56, 70–77, 88–89
causality and, 7, 40, 70–72, 112, 243, 371
chemistry and, 40, 87
diffusion and, 174–75, 249
exclusion principle, 6–7, 255, 258
infinities in, 4, 49, 99–100, 231–32, 238
Klein-Gordon equation, 74
least action in, 121, 127–29, 131–32, 138–39, 147, 247–50
mysteriousness of, 40, 44–45, 54, 70–71, 114,436–37
philosophy and, 40, 70–72, 243–44, 371–72, 375
probability in, 72–75, 88, 128, 132, 246–49, 275, 393–94, 433
two-slit experiment, 247–48, 250, 366
uncertainty and, 8, 70, 72–73, 75, 78, 89, 258, 321, 361, 429–30, 435
wave-particle duality, 7, 18–19, 40, 54, 80, 250, 261–62
quarks, 9, 390–96, 402–3, 432
quasiparticles, 300–302
Quine, W. V., 371
Quintilian, 313
Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 232, 233, 386
anti-Semitism and, 53
at Columbia, 232, 234, 251
Feynman and, 144, 296
at Pocono, 255
at Radiation Laboratory, 91, 137, 141
Schwinger and, 215–16, 243
at Trinity, 154, 156
radar, 91, 124, 136–38, 209, 216
radiation resistance, 109–11, 114
radiation science, 196–200
radio, 17–19, 46–47
ham, 282
rainbow, 130, 434
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 238
Rand, Sally, 41
Reagan, Ronald W., 416
reality, 38, 44–45, 101, 243–44, 375, 395
Reichstag, 167
relativity, 71, 99–100
general, 42, 74–75, 115, 316, 329, 351—54
popularization of, 42–43, 45, 429–30
quantum electrodynamics and, 99–100
renormalization, 239–40, 251–52, 259–62, 270, 282, 330, 377
qualms over, 347–49, 378, 380
Resnick, Judith, 415
Reviews of Modern Physics, 80, 249
Rhodes, Richard, 159
Richter, Charles, 281–82
Ride, Sally, 417
Riordan, Michael, 389–90
risk, 197, 427–28
Ritz, Walter, 118–19
Robertson, H. P., 130
Roethke, Theodore, 412–13
Rogers, Will, 281
Rogers, William P., 416–17, 419–23, 426
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