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Röntgen, Wilhelm, 99
Rosen, Nathan, 216
Rothstein, E. V., 412
Royal Air Force, 236–37
Rubáiyát (Omar Khayyám), 343
Russell, Henry Norris, 115
Ruth, Babe, 43–44, 327
Rutherford, Ernest, 71
S matrix, 267, 329
safecracking, 15, 189–90
Sakharov, Andrei, 297
Salam, Abdus, 405, 431
Salieri, Antonio, 322
Salk, Jonas, 133
samba, 286, 340
Sands, Matthew, 343, 363
Schein, Marcel, 304
Schrieffer, Robert, 303
Schrödinger, Erwin, 73–75, 88, 128, 232, 242, 246, 367
cat, 243
Schrödinger equation, 73, 88–89, 102, 129, 146–47, 174, 249, 301, 436
Schweber, Silvan S., 348, 386–87
Schwinger, Julian, 158, 215–16, 227, 243, 295, 309, 395
childhood, 48–49
early papers, 48–49
Feynman and, 16, 49, 252, 377–79
Nobel Prize, 377–79
at Pocono, 5–6, 255–58
quantum electrodynamics and, 239, 241, 251–53, 255–63, 266–69, 271, 275–77, 279–80, 321, 347, 367
at Shelter Island, 233–34
students, 276–77, 378
science
as career, 52–53
creativity in, 314, 321, 324–26, 409
experimental attitude, 14–16, 19
explanation in, 29
laws of, 13–14
military financing of, 4, 209–11, 294–95, 385
religion and, 31–32, 58–60
Science, 145
science fiction, 121, 235, 255, 299
Scientific American, 104, 414
scientists
aging of, 347
as children, 17, 19
as craftsmen, 321–22
as nerds, 44, 63
patriotism of, 137
public view of, 40–42, 44, 203
Scobee, Francis, 415–16
Segrè, Emilio, 198–99
seismology, 281–82
Selective Service, 222–25, 297
Serber, Robert, 163, 168–69, 173
sexual politics, 287–91,411–12
Shaaray Tefila, 23
Shakespeare, William, 313, 314, 317, 325, 328
Shelter Island conference (1948), 232–34
Shockley, William, 85, 137
Siegel, Carl Ludwig, 98
simplicity, see nature, simplicity in
Sitwell, Edith, 106
Slater, John C, 40, 53–55, 67–68, 83–91, 94, 301, 366
Slotin, Louis, 196–97
Slotnick, Murray, 270–72, 282
Smith, Lloyd, 263
Smith, Michael, 415
Smyth, Harry D., 84, 137, 140, 144, 149–50, 164, 227
Snow, C. P., 9–10
solid-state physics, see physics
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 166
South Pacific, 308
Soviet Academy of Science, 297–98
Soviet Union, 6, 191, 278, 296–98, 340–41
space, generalized conceptions of, 76, 507
space shuttle, see Challenger
space travel, 218–19, 340–41, 374, 414–28
space-time, 7, 74, 109, 124, 152, 246–49, 255, 272–75, 355, 351, 354
world-lines in, 121–22
spectroscopy, 55, 85, 254
Spellbound (Hitchcock), 225
spin, 75, 80, 99, 228–51, 240, 242, 282, 350, 356–57, 375, 399
Sputnik, 340–41,414
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), 391–95
Stanwyck, Barbara, 44
State Department, United States, 285, 298, 341
Stone, Arthur, 104
strangeness, 509–10, 360
Stratton, Julius A., 55, 55–56
Strauss, Lewis L., 295–96
streptomycin, 195–96
string theory, 455
stroboscope, 77
strong interaction, 507, 509–10, 350, 354, 392–95
Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 521–22
Stückelberg, Ernst, 272–75
SU(3), 387, 389–91, 455–54
Sudarshan, E. C. C, 357–58, 411
superconductivity, 299–505
superfluidity, 9, 298–505
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, 11, 409–11
surface tension, 501
Sykes, Christopher, 369
symmetry, 258, 255, 506, 509–10, 361
breaking, 389–90, 452, 455
isospin, 506
left-right, 506, 350–55, 358–40
spin, 229
time, 111–14, 118–20
Szilard, Leo, 156, 160
technology
attitudes toward, 41, 257, 406, 416
influence on theory, 41, 71, 108, 124
telescope, 27, 77, 120, 281, 284–85
television, 45, 47, 520, 346, 372, 416
Teller, Edward, 255, 255
cold war and, 341
Feynman and, 6–7, 157, 224–25
Hungarian conspiracy, 136
hydrogen bomb, 204, 258, 296
at Los Alamos, 166–69, 175, 197–98
Oppenheimer and, 166–69, 296
Schwinger and, 216
at Trinity, 153
Tetrode, H., 120
Theory of Fundamental Processes, 12
thermodynamics, 88, 126, 174, 355, 361, 365
Thinking Machines Corporation, 454
Thomson, J. J., 42–45
Thome, Kip S., 404
thought experiment, 107–8, 245, 247–49, 355
3M Company, 406
Three Mile Island nuclear accident, 416
time
philosophy of, 109, 125–28
reversibility, 7, 82, 108–12, 118–20, 125, 255–54, 258, 272–74
Time, 379
Time-Life Films, 407
Tiomno,