Three Scientific Revolutions: How They Transformed Our Conceptions of Reality (46 page)

Wallis, John,
88

Warrington Academy,
93

Washington Post
(newspaper),
221
,
224
,
255

Watson, James,
242
–
43

“wave mechanics,”
186
,
194
–
98

wave-particle duality,
140
,
198

of light,
141
,
184
–
86

of subatomic particles,
210

wave theory

of electromagnetism,
70
,
113
,
114
,
147
,
159
,
165
,
185
,
194

of light,
13
,
70
,
84
,
109
,
111
–
13
,
140
–
41
,
143
–
44
,
165

weak force,
170
,
212
,
214

“electroweak theory,”
213

superweak force,
214

“weakly interacting massive particles” (WIMPs),
224
–
25
,
228

Wedgwood, Josiah,
93

Weinberg, Steven,
211
,
213
,
214
,
215
,
222

Westfall, Richard S.,
68
–
69
,
70
,
72
–
74
,
76
–
77
,
86
,
88
,
89

Whewell, William,
95

Whitehead, Alfred North,
155

Whitrow, G. J.,
168

Whittaker, Edmund,
113
–
14

Wiechert, Emil,
152
,
154
,
155

Wien's thermodynamical law,
162

Wigner, Eugene,
211

Wilkins, Maurice,
242
–
43

Wilkinson, John,
93

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe,
217

William of Orange (king),
82

Wilson, C. T. R.,
154

WIMPs,
224
–
25
,
228

Wittgenstein, Ludwig,
155

Wollaston, William,
148

World Harmony [Harmonice Mundi]
(Kepler),
40

W particles,
213

W
^-
and W
⁺
,
212
,
214

Wycliffe, John,
10

X-rays,
150
,
156
,
157
,
163
–
64
,
174
,
175
,
182
,
185
,
242
,
243

Yang-Mills gauge theory,
213

Young, Thomas,
109
–
111
,
142
–
43

Yukawa, Hideki,
211

Zeitschrift für Physik [Writing on Physics]
(journal),
190
,
192
,
193
,
197
,
200

Z particles,
213
,
214

Z
⁰
particle,
212
,
214

Zweig, George,
212