60 The Becquerel to whom Pawlowski refers here is Henri, the son of Alexandre and grandson of Antoine, all three of whom were noteworthy theorists in the field of electromagnetism.
61 This exemplary calculation is taken from the same chapter of Le Bon’s L’évolution de la matière as the example cited in the cautionary tale of “The Dissociated Dog,” although it is slightly confused by Pawlowski’s intrusion of a reference to Einstein; Le Bon was not aware when he gave the example that Einstein would soon propose that the velocity of light was an unsurpassable limit.
62 This reference is to the chemist Marcellin Berthelot.
63 An appropriately unpretentious translation of the Latin exclamation would be “Look—there’s God!” The French cry I have left in situ—whose pedantic translation would produce something like “Long Live Anyone”—is difficult to render into sufficiently punchy English, but “Bully for Him!” might suffice.
64 Unlike the previous reference to a person of this name, this one is to the physicist Daniel Berthelot, who was Marcellin’s son.
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