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Tuckerman, Bryant,
104
Tukey, John,
104–5
turbulence,
9
,
298
,
502
,
450–51
,
454
,
436
UCLA Medical Center,
405
,
457–58
UFO’s,
375–74
uncertainty
in computation,
175–74
of knowledge,
5
,
15
,
29
,
67
,
126
,
195
,
285
,
371–75
,
438
in quantum mechanics,
8
,
70
,
72–73
,
75
,
78
,
89
,
258
,
321
,
361
,
429–30
,
435
Union Carbide,
141
United Nations,
339
uranium
atom,
94–95
bomb design,
170–72
critical mass calculations,
168–69
diffusion in,
169–73
hydride,
173
practical uses,
218–19
radiation danger,
195–200
Urey, Harold,
144
V-A theory,
see
weak interaction
Verne, Jules,
235
Vinogradov, I. M.,
236
visualization,
see
physics, visualization in
V-particles,
309–10
wave-particle duality,
7
,
18–19
,
40
,
54
,
80
,
250
,
261–62
weak interaction,
9
,
309–10
,
330
,
334–39
Wegener, Alfred,
321
Weinberg, Steven,
101
,
348
,
404
,
431
,
435
Weiner, Charles,
409
Weisskopf, Victor,
66–67
,
167–69
,
175
,
185
,
203
,
232
,
241
,
251–53
,
309
,
330
,
334
,
352
,
382–83
,
403
Welton, Theodore (T. A.),
51–52
,
56
,
73–79
,
169–71
,
173
,
183
,
228
,
325–26
Wentzel, Gregor,
272
What Do You Care What Other People Think?,
11
Wheeler, John Archibald,
93–96
,
102
,
124–25
,
141
,
146
,
233
,
255
,
258–59
Feynman and,
96
,
98–99
,
106
,
108
,
116
,
130
,
147
,
148
,
250
,
362
,
380
Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics,
110–15
,
117–29
,
147
,
215
,
246
,
253–54
,
278
,
333
,
381
Whitehead, Alfred North,
366
Whitman, Walt,
319
Whitney, Eli,
319
Wiener, Norbert,
172
Wigner, Eugene,
53
,
94
,
96
,
114–15
,
116
,
117
,
130–31
,
136
,
137
,
144
,
146
,
148
,
184
Wilbur, Richard,
37
Williams, Ted,
327
Wills, A. P.,
56
Wilson, Robert R.
at Cornell,
226–27
in Manhattan Project,
136–37
,
156
,
208
on modern physics,
209–10
Wheeler and,
93–94
Wisconsin State Journal
,
43–44
Wolfe, Thomas,
84
Wolfe, Tom,
407
World War I,
77
World War II,
3–4
,
84
,
128
,
237–38
aftermath,
208
scientists’ preparations for,
136–38
W. W. Norton and Company,
411
Yale University,
46
,
97
,
225
,
300–301
,
308
Yeager, Chuck,
417
Zeitschrift für Physik
,
120
Zeleny, John,
44–45
Ziman, John,
371
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