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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

Ulam, Stanislaw,
155
,
168
,
437

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

unitarity,
7
,
258

United Nations,
339

uranium

     atom,
94–95

     bomb design,
170–72

     critical mass calculations,
168–69

     diffusion in,
169–73

     hydride,
173

     isotope separation,
136
,
139–46

     practical uses,
218–19

     predetonation of,
6
,
168–69

     radiation danger,
195–200

     reactors,
157–58
,
161–65

Urey, Harold,
144

V-A theory,
see
weak interaction

Vallarta, Manuel S.,
81–82
,
215

Verne, Jules,
235

Vinogradov, I. M.,
236

visualization,
see
physics, visualization in

V-particles,
309–10

Watson, James,
349
,
386–87

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

Weyl, Hermann,
18
,
52

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

     fission and,
94–95
,
139

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

     Feynman and,
130
,
139–40

     isotron,
141–44
,
157–58
,
160

     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’s Fair,
40–41
,
260

World War I,
77

World War II,
3–4
,
84
,
128
,
237–38

     aftermath,
208

     scientists’ preparations for,
136–38

Wu, Chien Shiung,
334–35
,
337

W. W. Norton and Company,
411

X rays,
18
,
55
,
99
,
133

Yale lock,
15
,
188
,
297

Yale University,
46
,
97
,
225
,
300–301
,
308

Yang, Chen Ning,
333–34
,
336–37

Yang-Mills theory,
329
,
353
,
387

Yeager, Chuck,
417

Yukawa, Hideki,
259–60
,
282

Zeitschrift für Physik
,
120

Zeleny, John,
44–45

Ziman, John,
371

Zweig, George,
390–91
,
394
,
396

ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS

Illustration 1—courtesy of the American Institute of Physics; Illustration 2—Robin Brickman; Illustration 3—Gardner 1989; Illustration 4—Robin Brickman; Illustration 5—Wheeler and Feynman 1945; Illustration 6—courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology; Illustration 7—Victor Weisskopf and E. Wigner, “Berechnung der natürlichen Linienbreite auf Grund der Diracschen Lichttheorie,”
Zeitschrift für Physik
63 (1930); Illustration 8—Robin Brickman; Illustration 9—Robin Brickman; Illustration 10—Dyson 1949a; Illustration 11—Stückelberg 1941; Illustration 12—Feynman 1949b; Illustration 13—Feynman 1949b; Illustration 14—Cvitanović 1983; Illustration 15—Feynman 1985a.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Image 1—courtesy Joan Feynman; Image 2, top—courtesy Joan Feynman; Image 3, bottom—courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 4—courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 5—Los Alamos Scientific Library, courtesy AIP Niels Bohr Library; Image 6—Los Alamos Scientific Library, courtesy AIP Niels Bohr Library; Image 7, top—S. A. Goudsmit, courtesy AIP Niels Bohr Library; Image 8, bottom—AIP Niels Bohr Library; Image 9, top—AIP Niels Bohr Library, Marshak Collection; Image 10, bottom—AIP Niels Bohr Library, Physics Today Collection; Image 11, top—Richard Hartt Photography, courtesy of Caltech; Image 12, bottom—AIP Niels Bohr Library

Image 13, top—AIP Niels Bohr Library, Physics Today Collection; Image 14, bottom—Joe Munroe, courtesy of Caltech; Image 15—courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology; Image 16, top—UPI/Bettmann; Image 17, bottom—courtesy Gweneth Feynman; Image 18-19, top and bottom—courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 20, top—courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 21, bottom—Consulate General of Japan, N.Y., courtesy AIP Niels Bohr Library; Image 22, top—courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 23, bottom—Robert Walker, courtesy Michelle Feynman; Image 24-25, top and bottom—courtesy of Caltech; Image 26—UPI/Bettmann.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

British Broadcasting Corporation
: Excerpt from” Fun to Imagine,” an interview between Richard Feynman and Christopher Sykes as broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1983. Used by permission.

David Higham Associates
: Four lines from “Tattered Serenade,” from
Collected Poems
by Edith Sitwell, published by Macmillan London. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates.

copyright © 1992 by James Gleick

cover design by Milan Bozic

cover image courtesy of the Archives, California Institute of Technology

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