Genius (100 page)

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,
154
,
235
,
375–76
,
421–22

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