by Ray Monk
‘On the Quantum Theory of Molecules’ 133–5
‘On the Quantum Theory of the Problem of the Two Bodies’ 113, 114, 116, 121–2
‘On the Quantum Theory of Vibration-Rotation Bands’ 112–13, 114
‘On the Radiation of Electrons in a Coulomb Field’ 161
‘On the Spin of the Mesotron’ 289
‘On the Stability of Stellar Neutron Cores’ (with Serber) 248
‘On the Theory of the Electron and the Positive’ (with Furry) 208–9
‘The Production of Positives by Nuclear Gamma Rays’ (with Nedelsky) 208
‘The Production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons’ (with Serber and Snyder) 288–9
‘Reaction of Radiation on Electron Scatterng and Heitler’s Theory of Radiation Dampening’ (with Bethe) 491–2
‘Relativistic Theory of the Photoelectric Effect’ 175, 176
Reports to our Colleagues 270–72, 273, 275, 662
‘The Role of the Big Accelerators’ 646–7
‘Science and Culture’ 652
‘Three Notes on the Quantum Theory of Aperiodic Effects’ 143
lectures:
‘The Added Cubit’ 652–4
‘Atom and Field’ 650
‘Atomic Energy as a Contemporary Problem’ 502, 504, 509
‘Atomic Weapons and American Policy’ 587–90, 593
‘Electron Theory Description and Analogy’ 635–7
‘The Intimate and the Open’ 658–9
‘The Open Mind’ 531–2
‘Physics and Man’s Understanding’ 664–5
‘Physics in the Contemporary World’ 510–11, 515
‘Physics Tonight’ 637–8, 639
Reith Lectures 599–601, 604
‘Space and Time’ 650
‘Stars and Nuclei’ 247
‘The Sub-Nuclear Zoo . . .’ 635
‘Thirty Years of Mesons’ 666
‘A Time in Need’ 667
‘To Live with Ourselves’ 664
‘The Tree of Knowledge’ 643, 644
‘War and the Nations’ 650
William James Lectures 641–2
Osborn, Frederick 500
Ostwald, Wilhelm 75
Page, Katherine Chaves 49, 50, 69, 70, 71, 85, 149, 163, 278
Page, Winthrop 49
‘pair production’ 192, 193, 195, 196, 205
Pais, Abraham xi, 496–7
meets RO 497
joins him at Institute 497–8, 507, 508, 631–2, 642
dislikes Kitty 279
at Shelter Island Conference 501, 503
hears Powell’s report on meson experiments 509
and Einstein 509
hears Schwinger’s lectures 512, 513
impressed by Dyson 512
at Pocono conference 513, 514
on Feynman 514, 529
meets T. S. Eliot 526
praises RO photograph 539
not mentioned in Life article 541
on GAC meeting (1949) 546
on RO at Strauss’s party 554
on RO at 4th Rochester conference 604
collaboration with Gell-Mann 632
watches RO’s TV interview 633
loses bet with Wheeler 640
at 12th Solvay Congress 643
leaves Institute 654–5
edits special issue of Reviews of Modern Physics for RO’s 60th birthday 657, 658
speaks at RO’s memorial service 669
on RO 129, 148, 155, 176, 205
on RO’s children 644
Pancini, Ettore 502–3, 509
Parsons, Martha 425
Parsons, William (‘Deak’) 330, 354–5, 408–9, 411, 412–13, 414, 444, 445, 447, 448, 602
particle accelerators 168, 213, 224, 327, 542, 572, 646
see also cyclotrons
particle physics 226, 227
Pash, Lt-Colonel Boris 342
suspects RO of espionage 342, 343, 344, 346
keeps him under surveillance 358, 359
recommends he be refused clearance 360
clashes with Lansdale 361, 362, 363
interviews RO (1943) 369–73, 375, 376, 494, 611–12, 622, 623
continues to suspect him 373, 374
urges Groves to investigate further 377
orders train to be stopped 379–80
continues to try and identify RO’s ‘unnamed professor’ 381, 382
sent on Alsos mission 380, 381, 402
at RO’s security hearing 342, 379, 608, 619
Patterson, Robert 332, 473, 484, 500
Pauli, Wolfgang 136, 159–60
at Como conference 138, 139
on Bohr and Kramers 154
agrees to work with RO 155–6
collaborates with Heisenberg 156, 157–8, 161
and RO 158, 159–60, 161, 204
his hypothetical particle (‘neutron’) 177–9, 180, 181, 183, 185, 186, 228
dismissive of RO/Furry theory 209
on RO’s students 211, 286
and Schwinger 285
and RO’s scheme to mislead potential snoops 347
Pauling, Ava Helen 146–7
Pauling, Linus 146, 147 and n, 175, 621, 651
Pegram, George 261, 307, 308, 309
Peierls, Rudolf 160–61, 291
publishes paper on critical mass 291
collaborates with Frisch on memorandum on ‘Super-bomb’ 291–3, 316, 352, 395, 409
and Fuchs 391, 406
and German physicists 392
discusses implosion with RO 415–16, 417n, 424
leads Los Alamos implosion theory group 418
organises Birmingham conference (1948) 519
and Dyson 523, 526–7
Peng Huanwu 491
Penney, William 391
People’s World (newspaper) 274, 301
Perro Caliente 149–50, 163–4, 222, 276, 278, 460
Peters, Bernard 259, 336, 377, 387, 388, 533–6, 611, 620
Peters, Hannah 259
Philby, Kim 300, 390
Phillips, Melba 174–5, 204, 210, 212, 215, 216–17, 221–2, 225
Philosophical Magazine 103
‘photoelectric effect’ 175, 176
photons 87, 102, 137, 158, 184, 192
Physical Review 143, 161, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 194, 196, 205, 208, 209, 227, 285, 228–9, 248, 249, 261, 287, 289, 305, 313, 491, 502, 512, 515, 517, 632, 640
Physics Today 515–16, 635–8, 639, 655
Piaget, Jean 634
Picasso, Pablo 22
Piccioni, Oreste 502–3, 509
Pieper, Special Agent N. J. L. 310
Pierce, George Washington 76
Pike, Sumner T. 493, 552
Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountains 227
Pire, Father 659
Pitzer, Kenneth 574, 575, 577, 605, 616, 621
Placzek, George 244–5, 552
Planck, Max 107, 139, 198, 637
Planck’s constant 79n, 87, 158
Plaut, Joseph 21
Plesset, Milton 204–5, 206
plutonium 258, 261, 307, 309, 316, 331–2, 351, 353, 354, 395–6, 405, 406, 407–8, 424
reactor-produced 408, 409, 410, 412, 471n, 548
Pocono Manor Conference (1948) 513–14, 515
Poincaré, Henri 75
‘Poisson brackets’ 105, 106
Pollak, Inez 40, 41, 55, 93–4, 147
Pollak, Kitty 40
polonium 95n, 184, 292, 409
Pond, Ashley 338
Pontigny, France: annual colloquia 90
positrons 176–7, 191–2, 194–6, 205, 207–8 and n, 209, 501n, 529
Potsdam Declaration (1945) 443–4, 449, 455, 456
Powell, Cecil 504, 509, 523
Powers, Thomas: Heisenberg’s War 397n
Priestley, Raymond 89–90, 99, 117
Antarctic Adventure 89
Breaking the Hindenburg Line 89
Princeton: Jews 52 see also Institute for Advanced S
tudy
‘Project Vista’ 563, 564–5, 573
protons 95
Proust, Marcel: À la recherche du temps perdu 110
Puck (newspaper) 12
Puening, Franz 276
Puening, Kaethe (née Vissering) 276
‘pulsars’ 250
Purnell, Admiral William 452, 453–4
QED see quantum electrodynamics quantum electrodynamics (QED) 130, 156–7, 161, 176, 540
quantum mechanics 104–6, 107–8, 112–17, 127, 129, 170–71
and ‘uncertainty principle’ 131, 137, 138
and principle of complementarity 137
Copenhagen Interpretation 137–8
quantum theory 87, 95, 99, 101
‘old quantum theory’ 86, 87, 166–7
‘quantum tunnelling’ 143, 187
Quebec Agreement 390, 391, 397
Rabi, Helen 331
Rabi, Isidor 3, 4
friendship with RO 158–9
views on RO 3, 34, 67, 158, 160, 161, 173, 201–2, 440, 669–70
on American scientists 141, 165
and Schwinger 285, 496
tells Fermi news of nuclear fission 255
refuses post at Los Alamos 331
advises RO 329, 331, 334
and Trinity bomb 440–41
RO wants him at Caltech 461
plans international policy for atomic energy with RO 479, 480
on GAC 495
reports experimental results at Shelter Island Conference 501, 504, 510
excited by Schwinger’s theory 511–12
offers Dyson position 523
at GAC meeting 547, 548, 549
writes ‘minority’ report 551, 552, 581–2
furious with Truman 554
tempted to resign 555
and Serber 571
and Griggs 575, 580–81
and Lincoln Project 580
wants ban on H-bomb tests 584
a member of ZORC 581, 591
and RO’s hearing 604, 614, 615
dismissive of Shepley/Blair book 630
watches RO’s TV interview 633
and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658
Radest, Howard B.: Toward Common Ground 14, 21, 32
radiation: alpha and beta 177–8
from atomic bombs 352, 438, 442, 454, 462–3, 489, 543, 595, 609
radiation sickness 461–2, 463, 609
Radin, Paul 240
radioactivity 85, 95n, 168, 178 and n,
183n, 215–16, 267, 352n, 420
radium 95n, 168, 253, 293, 407
Rainowitch, Eugene 557
‘RaLa’ method 420, 423, 424
Ramsauer, Carl 143
‘Ramsauer effect’ 143–4, 148, 152
Ramsay, Sir William (ed.): Textbooks of Physical Chemistry 76n
Ramseyer, Frank 277
Randall, Merle: Thermodynamics (with G. Lewis) 75, 166
Rarita, William 289
Ray, Maud 293
Raymond, Natalie 173, 174
Rea, Lt-Colonel 462
reactors, nuclear 306, 307, 309, 317, 328n, 331–2, 408, 409, 537
heavy water 396–7, 546
Reviews of Modern Physics 264, 542, 657–8
Reynold’s Illustrated News 190
Rhine, Alice: ‘Race Prejudice at Summer Resorts’ 15–16
Rhodes, Richard 406
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 437
Rhodes Scholarships 62, 63–4
Richards, I. A.: on Blackett 94, 117
Riefenstahl, Charlotte 124, 141–2
Rieff, Philip 506
Ritter, Major T. H. 450–51
Robb, Roger 605, 606, 608, 610–15, 616, 617–18, 623
Robbins, Dr W. J. 156, 161–2
Roberts, John 661
Rochester, George 516
Rochester, University of 531, 534, 535, 536, 542
Rochester Conferences 604–5, 632, 634, 638–40
Rochester Times-Union (newspaper) 534–5, 536
Rockefeller Foundation 128, 130, 161, 267
see also International Education Board
Rogers, William P. 607
Roosevelt, Eleanor 558
Roosevelt, Franklin D., President 219
and Einstein’s warning letter 263
sets up Advisory Committee on Uranium 263, 293
and RO’s support 275
and atomic-bomb programme 301–2, 306, 307, 308, 311, 315
sends RO letter of appreciation 363
signs Quebec Agreement 390
Thanksgiving Day proclamation (1943) 380
and Bohr 399, 400, 401
agrees with Churchill not to share ‘secret’ of atomic bomb 401–2
and Szilard 433
death 428
see also New Deal
Roosevelt, Theodore, President 28, 41
Rosenberg, Ethel 421, 422, 556
Rosenberg, Julius 421, 422, 556
Rosenfeld, Léon 255, 261
Rossi, Bruno Benedetto 423, 424, 505, 516
Roswell: New Mexico Military Institute 47, 59
Rotblat, Joseph 402–3
Rothfeld, Sigmund 9, 11, 14–15, 19, 20
Rothfeld, Solomon 9, 11, 14–15, 19, 20
Rothfeld, Stern & Co. 15, 17–18, 20, 31
Rowe, Hartley 495, 549n, 550, 614
Royal, Denise: biography of RO 145, 163, 180
Royal Society 113, 157, 168, 189–90, 195
Proceedings 105, 106, 184–5, 188
Russell, Bertrand 80, 81, 82, 90
Principia Mathematica 82
The ABC of Atoms 190
Russell, Katharine 628
Rutherford, Sir Ernest 77, 85, 252
model of atom 85–7, 95, 102, 167
as director of Cavendish Laboratory 99
predicts existence of ‘neutrons’ 177, 183
rejects RO’s application 85, 87–9, 92, 96
and Blackett’s photographs of nuclear transformation process 94–5
and Kapitza 100
introduces RO to Bohr 113–14
at Como conference 138
sees need for producing particles artificially 168
and splitting of the atom by Cockcroft and Walton 187–90
advises Dirac to accept Nobel Prize 209–10
Ryder, Arthur 199, 200, 439, 651
S-1 (‘Section One’) committee 306–7, 308–9, 310, 311, 312–14, 315, 322
Sachs, Alexander 263
Sachs, Emanie: Red Damask 10, 22, 46
Sachs, Paul 40, 55
Sachs, Samuel 40
Sachs family 9, 15, 41
Sagane, Ryokichi 454–5
San Francisco Examiner 187, 210, 255, 256
Santa Fe 338–9, 340, 341
Saratoga: Grand Union Hotel 12, 16
Saturday Evening Post 644
Schecter, Jerold and Leona: Sacred Secrets 308
Schein, Marcel 244–5
Schiff, Jacob H. 15, 54
Schiff, Leonard 283, 284, 287, 288, 658
Schiffs, the 9
Schlapp, Robert 129
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr 646
Schneiderman, William 280–81, 301, 310
Schrödinger, Erwin: wave mechanics theory 107–8, 115–16, 157, 171
and quantum mechanics debate 139, 140
awarded Nobel Prize (1933) 116, 209
at Dublin 491
Schweber, Silvan 283, 510
Schwinger, Julian 284–5
as RO’s research assistant 284, 285–7
collaborates with him 287, 289
and Dancoff 287–8
works on mesotrons 289–90
notes RO’s loss of creativity 290
leaves Berkeley 290
at Harvard 496
at Shelter Island Conference 501, 504, 505
reformulates QED 208, 283, 284, 504, 509–10, 511–14, 516–18, 519, 520
and RO’s hearing 621
and RO’s 60th birthday tribute
657
awarded Nobel Prize (1965) 284, 530
Science 194, 195, 256
‘scintillations’ 188–9
Seaborg, Glenn T. 257, 305–6, 407, 408, 409, 433, 495, 547, 555, 651, 655, 669
See It Now (TV programme) 633–4
Segrè, Emilio 264–5, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 408, 410, 412, 418, 424
Seligman, Alfred Lincoln 8
Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson 8, 20
Seligman, George Washington 8
Seligman, James 8
Seligman, Jesse 8, 17
Seligman, Joseph 8, 11–13, 15, 17
Seligman, Theodore 17
Seligman, William 8, 17
Seligman & Co. 11–12
Seligmans, the 9, 41
Sengier, Edgar 485
Serber, Charlotte 222, 223, 276, 278, 315, 339, 376, 378, 386, 425, 668
Serber, Robert 211, 223
on RO 158, 176, 212, 213, 214, 232, 234, 235, 289, 346, 404
invited by him to support longshoremen’s strike 222–3
and Yukawa 229
collaborates with RO 229, 248
on Jean Tatlock 234
on Snyder 249
leaves Berkeley for Illinois University 258, 259, 283
relationship with RO 258, 259, 284
and discovery of fission 258
invited to New Mexico 276, 278
on Kitty Oppenheimer 278
collaborates with RO and Snyder 288–9
joins RO on atomic-bomb project 313, 315–16, 319, 320, 321
arrives at Los Alamos 339, 340
and RO’s security plan 346–7
lectures on bomb 350–52
collaborates with Tolman on implosion 352, 410, 411
leads discussions 353
plans scientific programme 354
a possible Communist 376
and Jean Tatlock’s death 386
at discussion of Bohr’s drawing 398
and ‘RaLa method’ of implosion 419–20
and ‘Trinity’ test 444
sends letter to Japanese physicist 454–5
and Japanese surrender 456
in Japan 462, 463, 467
and Teller’s ‘Super’ 546
agrees to present Lawrence’s proposals for reactors 546, 548
surprised at GAC’s change of attitude to H-bomb programme 548
leaves Berkeley for Columbia 571
considered ‘leftist’ 573
on Peter Oppenheimer 644
contributes to RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658
devotion to Kitty Oppenheimer 668
speaks at RO’s memorial service 669
death 352n
Shelter Island Conference (1947) 501–5, 508, 509, 513
Shepley, James and Blair, Clay: The Hydrogen Bomb 630, 633
Sherr, Pat 426, 644
Sherwin, Martin 335n
Fergusson interview 97, 98
Shipley, Sir Arthur 92
‘showering’ 205
