by Marcus Chown
Hagen, Dick 1
Hampton Court 1
Handel, George Frideric 1
Hanford 1, 2, 3, 4
Hanford Engineer Works 1, 2
Hanover 1, 2, 3
Harrison, F. B. 1, 2
Hartley, L. P. 1
Hastings 1
Hawking, Stephen 1, 2
Hawking radiation 1
Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts 1
H-bomb 1, 2, 3
HDE 226868 160–4, 1, 2
Heaviside, Oliver 1
Heisenberg, Werner 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 1
helium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 liquid 1, 2
Herman, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4
Herschel, Caroline 1
Herschel, William 1, 2
Herstmonceux castle 1, 2, 3
Hertz, Elisabeth 1
Hertz, Heinrich 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hertz, Johanna 1
Hertzsprung–Russell diagram 1
Hess, Victor 1, 2
Higgs, Peter 1, 2, 3
Higgs field 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Higgs particle 1, 2, 3, 4
Highlands, Scottish 1
Hiroshima 1
Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams) 1
Holmdel, New Jersey, 1, 2, 3, 4
Homestake gold mine 1
hominin 1
Hooker Telescope 1
horn, microwave 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Houtermans, Fritz 1
Hoyle, Barbara 1
Hoyle, Fred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Hubble, Edwin 1, 2, 3, 4
Hubble Space Telescope 1
Huguenot 1
Hulse, Russell 1
Hyde Park 1, 2, 3
hydrogen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 heavy: see deuterium
IceCube Collaboration 1
immune system 1, 2
implosion 1, 2, 3, 4
Incandela, Joe 1
induction, electromagnetic 1, 2
induction coil 1
Infeld, Leopold 1, 2
infinities 1, 2
inflation, theory of 1
inflaton 1
infrared 1, 2
Institute for Advanced Study 1, 2
International Astronomical Union 1, 2
inverse beta decay 1, 2
iron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
iron group elements 1, 2
Irwin, Shelley 1
Isaac Newton Telescope 1
isotope 1
Jansky, Karl 1
Jansky unit 1
Jew 1
Johns Hopkins University 1
Jones, Richard 1
Jordan, Pascual 1
Journal of the Franklin Institute 1, 2
Jung, Carl 1
Junior Astronomical Society 1
Jupiter 1, 2 radio waves from 1
Kaiser Wilhelm II 1, 2
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute 1
Kajita, Takaaki 1
Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector 1
Kansas City 1
Kapitza, Peter 1, 2
Karlsruhe 1, 2, 3, 4 University of 1
Kellogg, Jerome 1
Kellogg, Will Keith 1
Kellogg Radiation Laboratory 1, 2, 3, 4
Kemmer, Nick 1
Kensington 1, 2, 3
Kensington Gardens 1, 2, 3
Kerr, Roy 1
Kibble, Tom 1
King’s College, London 1, 2, 3
Knickerbocker Glory 1
Kohlrausch, Rudolf 1, 2
Kragh, Helge 1, 2
Krauss, Lawrence 1
Kruse, Herald 1, 2
Kuhn, Thomas 1
Kuiper Belt 1
Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) 1
La Palma 1
Laetoli footprints 1, 2
Large Electron–Positron collider 1
Large Hadron Collider 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Large Magellanic Cloud 1
laser 1, 2, 3
Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lauritsen, Charles 1
Le Verrier, Urbain 1, 2, 3
lead 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Lead, South Dakota 1
least action, principle of 1
Lederman, Leon 1, 2, 3, 4
Leighton, Robert 1
Leningrad 1
LEP: see Large Electron–Positron collider
lepton 1, 2, 3, 4
Leviathan telescope 1
Levin, Janna 1, 2
LHC: see Large Hadron Collider
light box 1
as electromagnetic wave 1, 2, 3, 4
interference of 1, 2
plane of polarisation of 1
polarisation of 1
speed of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
wavelength of 1, 2, 3
LIGO: see Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Observatory
LIGO, Advanced 1, 2, 3
LIGO–Virgo collaboration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
liquid scintillator 1, 2
liver transplant 1
Livingston, Louisiana 1, 2, 3
London 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
London Underground 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lord Rosse 1
Lorentz invariant 1
Los Alamos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Low Energy Antiproton Ring (LEAR) 1
Luftwaffe 1
Lundgren, Andrew 1
Lyttleton, Ray 1, 2, 3
M87 183–4, 1
McDonald, Arthur 1
McGuire, Austin 1, 2
McKellar, Andrew 1
McMillan, Ed 1
magnesium 1, 2
magnetism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of Earth 1
magnetic bottle 1
magnetic field 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
magnetic force 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 lines of 1
magnetic potential 1
Manhattan Project 1, 2, 3, 4
many body system 1 many histories interpretation of quantum theory 1
Mars 1, 2, 3, 4
mass as a form of energy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
inertial 1
rest 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
mass-energy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Mathematica 1
mathematics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 unreasonable effectiveness of 1, 2, 3, 4
Mather, John 1
matrix 1, 2, 3
matrix mechanics 1
Mattauch, Josef 1
matter stability of 1, 2
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics 1
Maxwell, James Clerk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Maxwell, Katherine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism 1, 2, 3
Mehra, Jagdish 1, 2, 3
Meitner, Lise 1, 2
mercury (element) 1
Mercury (planet) 1, 2 anomalous motion of 1, 2
Merrill, Paul 1
Methodist Central Hall 1, 2, 3
Metropolitan Board of Works 1
Metropolitan Railway 1
Mickey Mouse 1
microwave oven 1, 2
microwaves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Milky Way 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 halo of cold hydrogen gas of 1
Millikan, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mills, Robert 1
Minkowski, Hermann 1
momentum angular 1
law of conservation of 1, 2
linear 1, 2, 3
Montréal 1
Moon 1, 2, 3 eclipse of 1
motion around Earth 1
phases of 1
Mount Everest 1
Mount Olympus 1
Mount Palomar Observatory 1
Mount Wilson (Hooker) 100-inch telescope 1, 2
Mount Wilson Observatory 1, 2, 3, 4
multiverse 1
muon 1, 2
muon neutrino 1, 2
Murdin, Paul 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Mussolini, Benito 1
Nambu, Yoichiru 1
Napoleon Prize 1
NASA 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Press Club 1
Nature (journal) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nazi Germany 1
Nazis 1, 2, 3
Neddermeyer, Seth 1
Neptune discovery of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
prediction of 1, 2, 3, 4
neutrino electron 1, 2
mass of 1, 2, 3
muon 1, 2
solar 1, 2
sterile 1
tau 1
neutrino astronomy 1
neutron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 discovery of 1, 2, 3, 4
neutron core 1
neutron star 1, 2, 3, 4
neutron star merger 1, 2
Nevada bomb test site 1
New York City 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
New York Times 1
Newgate Prison 1
Newton, Isaac 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Newton’s law of gravity 1, 2, 3, 4
Newton’s laws of motion 1
NGC 4993 1
Nichol, John Pringle 1, 2
nitrogen 1, 2
Nobel Prize for Physics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Noether, Emmy 1, 2, 3
Noether’s Theorem 1
nuclear bomb: see atomic bomb
nuclear chain reaction 1, 2, 3
nuclear explosion 1, 2, 3, 4
nuclear fission 1, 2
nuclear force strong 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
weak 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
nuclear pile: see nuclear reactor
nuclear reactor 1, 2, 3
nuclear thermodynamic equilibrium 1
nucleon 1, 2, 3, 4
nucleosynthesis Big Bang 1
stellar 1, 2
nucleus: see atomic nucleus
Occhialini, Giuseppe 1
Olympics (1928), Amsterdam 1
Olympics (1932), Los Angeles 1
Omni (magazine) 1
Oort, Jan 1
Oppenheimer, Robert 1, 2, 3
Orion, constellation of 1
Orion Spiral Arm 1
Ørsted, Hans Christian 1, 2, 3
oscillator circuit 1
Oxford Street, London 1
oxygen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Özel, Feryal 1
P Reactor 1, 2, 3
Pacific Ocean 1, 2
Pagels, Heinz 1
Paris 1, 2, 3, 4
Paris Observatory 1, 2, 3
Pasadena 1, 2, 3, 4
Pasadena Junior College 1
Pauli, Wolfgang 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Pauli exclusion principle 1
Peebles, Jim 1, 2
Peierls, Rudolph 1, 2
Pemphigus vulgaris 1, 2
pen-recorder 1
Penge Place Estate 1
Pennsylvania Station 1
Penzias, Arno 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
pharaoh 1
Philpotts, Eden 1
photograph, first colour 1, 2
photomultiplier 1, 2
photon 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21
Physical Review 1, 2, 3, 4
Physical Review Letters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Physics Letters 1, 2, 3
Piccadilly 1, 2, 3
pigeon droppings 1
pigeons 1, 2
Pixley, Ralph 1
Planck, Max 1, 2
Planck’s constant 1
planet 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 extrasolar 1, 2
‘Planet 1’ 2
‘Planet X’ 1
Pluto 1, 2, 3
plutonium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pontecorvo, Bruno 1
positron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) 1
posting a baby in the mail 1
potassium 1
Potsdam 1
Prentki, Jacques 1, 2
Prestwick 1
Pretorius, Frans 1
Princeton University 1, 2
Project Poltergeist 1, 2
proton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
proton–proton chain 1
Proust, Marcel 1
Prussian Academy 1, 2, 3
Pryce, Maurice 1
pulsar 1, 2, 3, 4 binary 1
discovery of 1
quantum amplitude 1, 2, 3
field theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
interference 1
phase 1, 2
quantisation 1
spin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24
tunnelling 1
uncertainty 1, 2
wave 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
quark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 anti- 1, 2, 3
bottom- 1, 2
charm- 1, 2
confinement 1
down- 1, 2, 3
jets 1
strange- 1, 2
top- 1, 2, 3
up- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
quasar 1, 2, 3 discovery of 1
radar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Radboud University 1
radio astronomer 1, 2, 3, 4
discovery of 1
horn 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
receiver 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
static: see radio waves
station 1
transmitter 1, 2, 3
waves 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 287
rainbow 1, 2, 3, 4
red giant 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Reines, Frederick 1, 2, 3, 4
Reitze, David 1, 2
relativistic aberration 1
relativistic beaming 1
relativity general theory of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
special theory of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
renormalisation 1, 2, 3
Ribeau, George 1
Rice University 1
Rickson, Jerry 1
Riemann, Bernhard 1
Riemannian geometry 1
Robertson, Howard Percy 1, 2, 3
Robinson Laboratory of Astrophysics 1, 2, 3
Roman legionnaires 1
Rome 1, 2, 3
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory 1
Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena 1
Rosen, Nathan 1, 2, 3
Rosenbaum, Erna 1
Rostand, Jean 1, 2
Rowan, Sheila 1, 2
Roy, Arundhati 1
Royal Air Force 1
Royal Astronomical Society 1
Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) 1, 2, 3, 4
Royal Institution 1, 2, 3, 4 Christmas lectures 1, 2
Royal Navy 1
Royal Society 1, 2, 3, 4
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1
Rubbia, Carlo 1
Rubin, Vera 1
Russell, Bertrand 1
Russell, Henry Norris 1
Rutherford, Ernest 1, 2, 3
Sagan, Carl 1
Sagittarius A* 1, 2
St Mary le Strand Church 1
Salam, Abdus 1, 2
Salpeter, Ed 1
Sample, Ian 1, 2
San Diego 1, 2
San Gabriel Mountains 1, 2, 3
Sandage, Allan 1
Sands, Matthew 1
Santa Barbara Street 1
satellite, communications 1
Saturn 1, 2
Savannah River Plant 1, 2, 3, 4
sawdust 1
scalar boson 1
scalar field 1
Schmidt, Maarten 1
Schneider, Martin 1
Schrödinger, Erwin 1, 2
Schrödinger equation 1, 2, 3
Schumacher, Heinrich 1
Schwarzschild, Karl 1, 2
Schwarzschild, Martin 1
Schwarzschild metric 1
Schwarzschild radius 1
Schwarzschild solutio
n 1, 2, 3, 4
Schwinger, Julian 1, 2, 3
Science (journal) 1, 2
science, birth of 1
Science and Technology Facilities Council 1
Scientific American (magazine) 1, 2
Sea of Tranquility 1
Semipalatinsk 1
Serpentine, the 1
Shelley, Mary 1, 2
Siding Spring Observatory 1
silicon burning 1
singularity 1, 2
Skobeltzyn, Dimitry 1
smallpox 1
sodium 1
solar neutrino puzzle 1, 2
Solar System 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
solenoid 1, 2
sombrero hat potential 1, 2, 3
Somerset House 1
South Kensington Museum 1, 2
Soviet Union 1, 2, 3
space age 1
space–time 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 warped 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
10-dimensional 1
spectral line 1
spectrometer: see spectroscope
spectroscope 1, 2
spectrum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
spiral arm 1, 2
Spock, Mr 1, 2
Sputnik 1 1
Stagg Field 1
Stalin, Joseph 1
Standard Model, the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
star Population I 1
Population II 1
Starfish Prime 1
Starship Enterprise 1
Steady State Theory 1, 2, 3
Stenger, Victor 1, 2, 3
Stephenson, George 1
Stockholm 1, 2
Strand, the 1, 2
Strassman, Fritz 1
strontium 1
Struve, Friedrich 1
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory 1, 2
Sullivan, Walter 1
Sun rising and setting of 1
total eclipse of 1, 2
Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron 1
supercooling 1
supergiant 1
Super-Kamiokande 1
supernova 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Supernova 1987A 1
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 1, 2
symmetry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 charge 1
gauge
left–right 1
local gauge 1, 2, 3
matter–antimatter 1, 2
spontaneous breaking of 1, 2
