Genius (98 page)

     examinations,
30
,
49
,
52
,
65
,
66
,
83–84
,
130

     Gell-Mann and,
11
,
310–11
,
315
,
332–39
,
346–47
,
354
,
367
,
387–89
,
411
,
434

     graduation,
91–92
,
148

     honorary degrees,
148
,
384

     illness,
401–4
,
408
,
410
,
417
,
437–38

     investigation of,
296–97

     irresponsibility,
181
,
200
,
386
,
388

     lecturing,
114–15

     marriages,
151
,
292
,
346

     Mexico house,
379
,
402

money and,
98
,
192
,
349
,
406–7

     Nobel Prize,
9
,
49
,
375–83

“Notebook of Things I Don’t Know About,”
130

obituary,
437

     parents and,
25–30
,
91
,
149–51
,
215–16
,
220–21

     patents of,
15
,
218

     physical intuition,
131
,
142
,
243–45
,
302–3
,
325–26

     poetry and,
7–8
,
31–32
,
69
,
105
,
244
,
373–74
,
412–13
,
436–37

     politics,
292
,
297

     psychiatry and,
223–25

     radios and,
17–19
,
46–47

     rationality,
70
,
115–16
,
220–22

     religion and,
22–23
,
31–32
,
65
,
84–85
,
115
,
220–21
,
372–73

     reputation,
3
,
9–12
,
36
,
51
,
96
,
129–31
,
184

     rhythmic sense,
16
,
65
,
78
,
106
,
191
,
243
,
277
,
286

     safecracking,
15
,
189–90

     scientific work computing,
6
,
138
,
175–82
,
190–91
,
198
,
201
,
329
,
407–8
,
414–15
,
435

         cosmic rays,
81–82
,
215

         electrodynamics (Wheeler-Feynman),
110–15
,
117–29
,
147
,
215
,
246
,
253–54
,
381

         forces in molecules,
9
,
86–90

         genetics,
14
,
349–51

         gravitation,
9
,
120
,
316
,
351–54
,
434

         partons,
9
,
390–96

         path integrals,
132
,
174
,
229–31
,
246–51
,
254–55
,
275
,
349
,
354

         predetonation,
6
,
168–69

         quantum electrodynamics,
6–9
,
127–29
,
146–48
,
245–52
,
258
,
267–77

         quantum mechanics,
74–76

         superfluidity,
9
,
298–303

         tiny machines,
14
,
354–56
,
407

         weak interactions,
9
,
335–39

     and the sixties,
405–7

     socialization of,
26–27
,
32
,
45–46
,
62–64
,
97–98

     sports and,
32
,
63
,
401

     storytelling,
11
,
25
,
28–29
,
46–47
,
222–25

     theses,
9
,
86–90
,
138–41
,
146–48
,
215
,
229
,
246
,
249

     war work,
137–38
.
See also
isotron project; atomic bomb

     women and,
3
,
5
,
32
,
45–46
,
63–64
,
97
,
192
,
200
,
212
,
277
,
286–93
,
342–46
,
411–12

Feynman diagrams,
7–8
,
11
,
270–76
,
282
,
303
,
330
,
335
,
348
,
352
,
394
,
437

     acceptance of,
275–78

     precursors,
104
,
130–31

     Schwinger and,
276–77

Feynman-Hellmann theorem,
89—90

Feynman Lectures on Physics
,
12
,
21–22
,
37–38
,
145
,
357–64
,
407
,
435–36

Field, Richard,
402–3

field,
18–19
,
48–49
,
121
,
139
,
260

     derived from quantum mechanics,
368

     Feynman’s aversion to,
100–101
,
109–10
,
146–47
,
250
,
380

     gravitational,
74
,
351–52

     neutrino,
337

     particles and,
102
,
132
,
275

     parton,
391–95

     paths of,
275

     visualization of,
102
,
242
,
245–46

field theory,
48–49
,
118
,
146
,
250
,
256
,
261–62
,
275
,
279–80
,
326
,
348
,
381
,
402

     decline of,
330

fission, nuclear,
79
,
95
,
136
,
146
,
161–63
,
168
,
172–73

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
97

flavor (particle property),
229
,
390
,
403

Fleming, Alexander,
133
,
329

Flexagons,
9
,
103–4
,
131

“The Flight of the Bumblebee,”
15

Fonda, Henry,
44

Ford, Henry,
40

Fort Knox,
164

Fowler, Willy,
316

Frankel, Stanley,
180

Frankford Arsenal (Philadelphia),
137–38

free will,
431

French, Bruce,
253–54

     Freud, Sigmund,
318
,
326

friction,
9
,
29
,
299–302
,
356
,
361
,
398

Frisch, Otto,
154
,
203

     Fuchs, Klaus,
6
,
185
,
187
,
190
,
191
,
201
,
296–97

functional roots,
137

Gardner, Martin,
104

gauge invariance,
256

Gauss, Carl Friedrich,
311

Gell-Mann, Margaret,
346

Gell-Mann, Murray,
232
,
348
,
351
,
382

     background,
307–9

     at Caltech,
311
,
338
,
340–41
,
346–47
,
402
,
405
,
407

     Feynman and,
11
,
310–11
,
315
,
332–39
,
346–47
,
354
,
367
,
387–89
,
411
,
434

     Nobel Prize,
376–77
,
396

     parity,
332–35

     quarks,
390–96

     on Schwinger,
277
,
308

     on solid-state physics,
14

     strangeness,
309–10
,
360

SU
(3),
387
,
389–91

     weak interactions,
335–39

Gelman, Benedict,
308

General Electric,
141
,
223

general relativity,
see
relativity

genetics,
14
,
133
,
293
,
349–51
,
355
,
358

Geneva,
339–40

genius,
8
,
36
,
311–29

     American,
318–19

     disappearance of,
312
,
327–29

     Edison as,
319–20

     imagination in,
313
,
324–25

     literature of,
312–15

     madness and,
314–19