Genius (102 page)

     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

Rome, University of,
166

Röntgen, Wilhelm,
99