Genius (101 page)

     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
,
332–33
,
334–35
,
339

         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