Genius (99 page)

     as “magician,”
10–11
,
312
,
315–17
,
324

     mythologizing of,
10–11
,
43–44
,
315
,
322

     originality,
10
,
324–26

     physical basis of,
311–12

     physicists’ view of,
8
,
322–24

     rationalization of,
315–16

Gerard, Alexander,
314

Germany,
22
,
42
,
77–78
,
97
,
128
,
140
,
167
,
260
,
414

Gershwin, George,
186

Gilbert, William,
68

Glashow, Sheldon,
405

God,
317
,
318
,
322
,
372–73
,
398

     Feynman and,
31–32
,
115
,
220–21
,
372–73

     proofs of,
58–59
,
67–68

     scientists and,
58–60

Gödel, Kurt,
295
,
429

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
66
,
236

Goldberger, Marvin,
293
,
404

Goodstein, David,
12
n,
363
,
386–87

Gordon, Walter,
73

Gould, Stephen Jay,
327

Graduate Record Examination,
83–84

Graham, William R.,
417–21

gravitation,
9
,
42
,
56
,
74–75
,
111
,
115
,
120
,
309
,
316
,
351–54
,
365

Groves, Leslie R.,
143–44
,
159–60

Grünewald, Matthias,
65–66

gyroscope,
362

hadron,
392–95

Hamiltonian method,
128
,
226

Handler, Philip,
384

Hardy, Godfrey Harold,
236

Harvard University,
83
,
85
,
97
,
141–42
,
160
,
182
,
216
,
276–77
,
308
,
378
,
404

Harvey, Thomas S.,
311–12

Harvey, William,
68

Hawking, Stephen,
322
,
430–32

Heisenberg, Werner.
See also
uncertainty in quantum mechanics

     atomic bomb and,
140

     cosmic rays and,
82

     Feynman and,
404

     quantum mechanics,
72–73
,
75
,
88
,
102
,
232
,
246
,
269
,
367
,
391

S
matrix,
267
,
329

     Tomonaga and,
260

     on visualization,
5
,
242

     youth of,
52
,
78

helium,
see
superfluidity

hexaflexagons,
see
flexagons

Hibbs, Albert,
415

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

history of science,
11
,
41
,
279–80
,
313–14
,
320
,
322
,
380

Hitchcock, Alfred,
223

Hofstadter, Douglas,
404

Holton, Gerald,
245
,
385–86

Homer,
313
,
314
,
317

Hoover, J. Edgar,
296

Hopfield, John,
434

Hubble, Edwin,
124

Hughes Aircraft Company,
406
,
415

Huxley, Thomas,
66

Huygens, Christiaan,
250

hydrodynamics,
163
,
299

hydrogen,
72–74
,
79
,
94
,
161–62
,
164
,
173
,
198
,
234

hydrogen bomb,
6
,
204
,
258
,
278
,
296
,
365

Idlewild Field (Kennedy International Airport),
20

inertia,
29
,
174–75
,
259

infinities,
see
quantum mechanics

Institute for Advanced Study,
94
,
106
,
227
,
266–70
,,
295
,
309
,
346
,
377

intelligence tests,
30

interference,
111–12
,
247
,
250

International Business Machines Corporation,
179–82
,
198
,
407
,
414

Interscholastic Algebra League (New York),
32–34
,
83

isotopic spin,
282
,
306–7
,
387

isotron project,
139–45
,
157

Jacobs, Morrie,
47

Jarvis, Gregory,
415

Jehle, Herbert,
128–29
,
136

Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
281
,
404
,
414–15
,
417–18

Johns Hopkins University,
94

Johnson Space Center,
426

Jones, James,
327

Jornada del Muerto (N.M.),
154
,
202

Judaism,
22–23
,
27–28
,
65
,
85
,
220–21

Kac, Mark,
10–11
,
249
,
315
,
322–23

Kazin, Alfred,
21

Kemble, Edwin C,
53

Kennedy Space Center,
426

Keynes, John Maynard,
317

Klein-Gordon equation,
73–74
,
336

Klein, Oskar,
73

knowledge.
See also
uncertainty

     faith and,
37
,
58
,
221

     false,
373–74
,
407

     fundamental,
14
,
22
,
357
,
435–36

     guilty,
3
,
203
,
207–10
,
263–64

     hoarded,
316–17

     rote,
66
,
283–84
,
398–401

     philosophy of,
357
,
364–75
,
429

     practical,
14–16
,
36
,
68
,
366

     scarcity of,
47–48

     secret,
210

     stratification of,
9
,
67
,
372

Kuhn, Thomas S.,
321–22

Kusch, Polykarp,
377

Kutyna, Donald J.,
416
,
419–23
,
426

Kyōto University,
259–60

Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(Lawrence),
192

Lady Eve, The
,
44

Lagrange, Joseph Louis,
59–61
,
250

Lagrangian method,
60–61
,
88
,
128–32
,
147
,
170–71
,
228

Lamb, Willis,
234
,
239
,
377

Lamb shift,
234
,
239–40
,
251–53
,
260

Landau, Lev
,
130,
239
n,
297
,
298
,
300–301

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de,
430

Laurence, William L.,
40
n,
154–55
n

Lauritsen, Charles,
282

Lavatelli, Leo,
144
n

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent,
39

law, scientific,
29
,
57–61
,
101
,
109
,
244
,
265
,
294
,
299
,
317
,
325
,
338
,
365–67
,
411

lawn-sprinkler problem,
106–8

Lawrence, D. H.,
237

Lawrence, Ernest O.,
130
,
136
,
166
,
226

     calutron,
142–44

least action, principle of,
57–61
,
228
,
362
,
366

     Feynman’s first encounter,
60–61

     in quantum mechanics,
121
,
127–29
,
131–32
,
138–39
,
147
,
247–50

Lee, Tsung Dao,
333–34
,
336–37

Leighton, Ralph,
409–10

Leighton, Robert B.,
363

Levi-Civita, Tullio,
56

Lewine, Frances (cousin),
26
,
438

Lewine, Pearl (Phillips) (aunt),
25
,
26

Lewine, Ralph (uncle),
26

Lewine, Robert (cousin),
26

Lewis, Gilbert N.,
120

light,
14
,
30
,
57–61
,
71–72
,
80–83
,
100–1
,
110–11
,
120–21
,
125–26
,
247
,
250
,
259
,
273
,
284
,
368
,
373
.
See also
photon; quantum electrodynamics

Lilly, John,
406

Lindemann, Ferdinand von,
52