Genius (95 page)

     chain reaction,
161–63
,
172–73
,
197

     computation,
175–82
,
201

     dragon experiment,
196

     effect on physics,
4
,
203
,
207–11
,
216
,
232
,
294–95
,
376
,
431

     guilt over,
3
,
156
,
203
,
207–9
,
213
,
263–64

     Hiroshima,
156
,
203–4
,
210
,
218
,
237
,
263

     isotron project,
139–45

     Nagasaki,
156
,
203
,
210

     official history,
164

     origins of,
95
,
136
,
139

     postwar consequences of,
156
,
207–11
,
213
,
218
,
233
,
278
,
294–95
,
340
,
431

     practical difficulties,
163–65
,
170–73
,
181

     predetonation,
6
,
168–69

     radioactivity,
197–99

     Russian,
278
,
297–98

     space travel and,
218–19

     theorists’ role,
155
,
163–65
,
173–74
,
181

     Trinity test,
6
,
65–66
,
153–57
,
203

atomic energy,
218
,
339

Atomic Energy Commission,
209
,
211
,
277
,
295–96

AT&T Bell Laboratories,
see
Bell Telephone Laboratories

Auden, W. H.,
7–8

aurora borealis,
27
,
436
,
437

Baade, Walter,
293

Baba Ram Das,
see
Alpert, Richard

Babbage, Charles,
180

Bacher, Robert F.,
210–11
,
277–78
,
338

Bacon, Francis,
429

Bacon, Roger,
68
,
314

bacteria,
349–51

Bader, Abram,
60–61
,
362

Bainbridge, Kenneth,
155

Barber, Edwin,
411
n

Bardeen, John,
303

Barschall, Heinz,
96

Bartkey, Walter,
293

Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre,
318

Bayside Cemetery (New York),
26
,
220–21

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
318

Beggs, James,
421
,
427

Bell, Alexander Graham,
40
,
319

Bell, Mary Louise (second wife),
287
,
291–94

Bell Telephone Laboratories,
85
,
137–38
,
182
,
354

Bergman, Ingrid,
223

Bernal, J. D.,
315–16

Bernoulli, Daniel,
39

Bernstein, Jeremy,
277

Besicovitch, A. S.,
236

beta decay,
272
,
309
,
330–39

Bethe, Hans,
53
,
176–78
,
216
,
233
,
255–59
,
287
,
386

     background,
166–67
,
289

     consulting,
223

     at Cornell,
204–5
,
226–28
,
269–70
,
277
,
278
,
293–94

     and Dyson,
235
,
238–39
,
266–67

     and Feynman,
165–66
,
169
,
184
,
212
,
241
,
249
,
262
,
296

     as genius,
322

     Lamb shift calculation,
239–40
,
251–52

     at Los Alamos,
165–69
,
171
,
173
,
180
,
198
,
202–3

     mental arithmetic,
14–15
,
175–77

     Nobel Prize,
377

     nuclear physics,
80
,
167

     physical intuition,
166–67
,
305

     prewar research,
138

     renormalization,
239–40
,
252

     Schwinger and,
216

Bethe, Henry,
241

Bethe, Rose,
202
,
289

Bethe-Feynman formula,
6
,
168

Bhagavad Gita
,
155

Bhopal chemical disaster,
416

     bikini,
339

     bird watching,
28–29
,
308
,
388

Birge, Raymond T.,
85
,
184
,
204

Bjorken, James D.,
393–94

black hole,
93
,
353

Blake, William,
318

Block, Martin,
333
,
335

Bohr, Aage,
258

Bohr, Niels,
5
,
10
,
15
,
41
,
130
,
243–44
,
279–80
,
292

     atomic model,
38
,
71–72
,
99
,
242

     complementarity,
40
,
54
,
247

     criticism of Feynman,
8
,
226
,
258

     as genius,
322

     liquid-drop model,
95
,
139

     at Los Alamos,
8
,
257

     Nobel Prize,
376

     at Pocono,
5
,
8
,
255–58

     Wheeler and,
93–95

Bondi, Hermann,
125–26

     bootstrap model,
369–70

Boscovich, Ruggiero,
39

Boyle, Robert,
38–39

Braun, Wernher von,
414

Brazil

     appeal to Americans,
278

     Feynman in,
278
,
282–87
,
337
,
341

     physics in,
278
,
283–84

Brewster’s Law,
283

Bridgman, Percy,
101

Broglie, Louis de,
73

Bronk, Detlev W.,
383–84

Brookhaven National Laboratory for Nuclear Research,
53
,
209

Cahn, Judah,
219–21

calculating, mental,
9–10
,
33–36
,
175–78
,
328–29

calculating machines,
83
,
124
,
138
,
176
,
179–82
,
355

California Institute of Technology,
281–82

     Atheneum,
388

     cafeteria,
12
,
388

cosmic ray research,
81
,
253

Einstein at,
281

Engineering and Science
,
355–56

Feynman at,
277–78
,
282–83
,
293–94
,
311
,
338
,
340–41
,
349
,
357–63
,
379
,
398
,
404
,
406–7
,
412
,
435
,
437

     Gell-Mann at,
311
,
338
,
340–41
,
407

     genetics,
349–51

     government financing,
386
,
406

     growth of,
277
,
281–82

     Kellogg Radiation Laboratory,
282

     liquid helium experiments,
302

     nuclear physics,
281

     physics colloquium,
404

     physics teaching,
12
,
277
,
295
,
357–63
,
404–405

     Physics X,
12
,
398
,
417

women at,
412

California, University of, at Berkeley,
53
,
85
,
130
,
136
,
141
,
143
,
163
,
166
,
184
,
204
,
209
,
210
,
216
,
255–56

Cambridge University,
53
,
159
,
166
,
236
,
238
,
315
,
317

Case, Kenneth,
270–72
,
282

Catskill Mountains (New York),
28

causality,
7
,
40
,
54
,
70–72
,
109
,
112
,
243
,
365–66
,
371

Cedarhurst (New York),
20–21
,
23
,
26
,
45
,
151

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas,
278
,
283–84

“Century of Progress” (1933 World’s Fair),
40–42

CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research),
381
,
383

Challenger
(space shuttle),
11
,
145
,
415–28

     background,
425

     investigating commission,
416–17

     launch,
415–16

     O-rings,
418–23
,
427–28