Genius (103 page)

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, Jayme,
278

Tokyo University,
260

Tolman, Richard,
144

Tomonaga, Shin’ichiro,
259–61
,
267
,
377–579

Townsend Harris High School (New York),
48

Treasure Island
(Stevenson),
65

triboluminescence,
285

Trinity test,
6
,
65–66
,
155–57
,
205

Truman, Harry S,
209

tuberculosis,
155–55
,
149–50
,
194–96

Tübingen, University of,
167

Tuck, Helen,
385