by Ray Monk
Silverman, Sam 605
Simon, Franz 293–4
Slater, John C. 133
Slotnick, Murray 527–8
Smith, Al 219–20
Smith, Alice Kiball 457, 458, 476
Smith, Cyril S. 330, 495, 547, 550, 658
Smith, Herbert Winslow:
relationship with RO 34
views on RO 34, 35, 37, 47, 59, 71, 149
and Fergusson 43–4
travels to New Mexico with RO 44–5, 50–51
encourages his writing 65
dines with him 70
advises Fergusson to be tactful with RO 84, 90
with RO after mother’s death 181
RO’s letters to 56, 58, 62, 64–5, 69, 70, 77, 80, 81, 83, 85
Fergusson’s letters to 61, 62, 63
Smith, Howard K. 642
Smith Act (1940) 275, 280
Smyth, Henry DeWolf 458–9, 552, 623, 631, 668
Sneath, Richard G. 12
Snow, C. P. 92, 96, 184n
‘The Two Cultures’ 92, 649
Snyder, Hartland 249, 259, 264, 273, 283, 284
collaborates with RO 249–50, 251, 263, 284, 655, and with RO and Serber 288–9
Social Register, New York 15
Soddy, Frederick 183n
Solvay, Ernest 138
Solvay Congresses:
1911 501
1927 138–40
1933 207
1948 519–20, 521
1958 643
Somervell, General Brehon B. 322, 323
Sommerfeld, Arnold 88, 103, 129, 138, 161, 165, 167, 230
Atombau und Spektrallinien 76n, 87, 104, 167
‘Bohr–Sommerfeld model’ 87, 167
Sorin, Gerald 7
Southeast, The 615
Spaatz, General Carl 443, 444, 448, 453
Spanish Civil War (1936–7) 232–3, 234, 236, 238, 241, 277–8, 280, 308
Spender, Stephen 646
Sproul, Robert 324, 478
Sputnik I 642
Stalin, Joseph 271, 274, 432, 442, 443
Stern, Alfred 231, 244
Stern, Hedwig (née Oppenheimer) 231
Stern, J. H. 15
Stern, Otto 159
Stern, Philip 379–80, 539
Stevenson, Adlai 583
Stevenson, E. C. 229
Stewart, Alexander 12
Stewart (A. T.) & Company 12
Stewart, Walter W. 508
Stimson, Henry L. 366, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 437, 441–2, 443, 444
RO’s letter to 458
Strachey, Lytton 90
Strassman, Fritz 252–4
Stratton, S. W.: Born to 130–31
Strauss, Lewis L. 493
offers RO directorship of Institute for Advanced Study 495
‘shaken’ by FBI’s revelations about RO 499
RO makes an enemy of 537–9
lobbies Truman to authorise H-bomb programme 543–4, 553, 555, 556
cold-shouldered by RO 554
told about Fuchs 556
suspects RO 556–7, 572
resigns from AEC 571
wants RO’s reputation ruined 574, 590
opposed to his being reappointed to GAC 578
at RO’s lecture to Council on Foreign Relations 587, 588
and Murphy’s attack on RO 591
winning war against RO 592–3
accepts chairmanship of AEC 593–4
Time profiles 593–4, 595
and Borden 597, 598
meeting with RO 601–2
puts RO under close surveillance 602, 603
and Rabi 604, 615
and RO’s hearing 606, 607, 609, 623
persuades AEC to publish proceedings 623
and decision not to reinstate RO’s clearance 623
and RO’s resignation as Institute director 631
replaced as chairman of AEC 645
public humiliation 645
and RO’s Fermi Award 655
Street, J. C. 229
Strömgren, Bengt 657, 658
Strong, Major General 341, 345
Sunday Express 190, 599
‘Super’, the see hydrogen bomb
supernovae 245–6, 247, 249, 250
Swann, William 168
Sweeney, Major Charles W. 453, 454
Szilard, Leo:
conceives idea of chain reactions 190–91, 261
leaves Germany 198
tries to warn US government of dangers of fission 261–2
alerts Einstein 262–3
joins with him and Teller to write to President 263
and start of US bomb project 266
investigates chain reactions 293
and Oliphant 295
at Columbia 309, 326
at Chicago Met Lab 309, 324
and Groves 324, 432
worried about consequences of atomic bomb 432–3
petitions Los Alamos scientists 435–6
and May–Johnson Bill 465–6
gives evidence to House Committe on Military Affairs 473
on RO’s testimony 474
Taft, Senator Robert 592
Tamm, E. A. 345, 383, 384
Tanimoto, Rev. Kiyoshi 446–7
Tatlock, Jean 233–5, 236, 259, 359, 360, 362, 373, 386–7, 427, 597, 612–13
Tatlock, John 233, 386
Teachers’ Union 238–9, 241
Teller, Edward 262
hears about nuclear fission 255
urges secrecy 262
writes letter to Roosevelt with Einstein 263
works on ‘Super’ fission bomb 317–18, 319, 320, 356, 411, 416–18, 543
on RO 321
on Berkeley 321–2
offended at not being given Los Alamos post 331, 417
impressed by Feynman 348
and Groves 349
on Los Alamos planning board 354
concerned that Germans have atomic bomb 392
and von Neumann’s visit 413, 416–17
dissuaded from signing Szilard’s petition by RO 436
at Shelter Island Conference 501
supports Frank Oppenheimer 537
worried by Soviet bomb 543
and debate over crash programme for H-bomb 543–4, 545, 546–7, 551–2, 555, 556, 558–9, 560
and Fuchs 557
his ‘classic Super’ design shown not to work 560–61, 565–6
and GAC report 562, 569
designs ‘Cylinder’ 566
develops bomb with Ulam 566–9
leaves Los Alamos for Chicago 569–71
campaigns for rival laboratory 571–4
and Strauss 572
interviewed by FBI 573
ruins RO’s reputation 574, 575, 578
monitors first Ulam–Teller bomb 585
has extraordinary conversation with RO 586–7
and RO’s hearing 604–5, 606, 616–17, 621, 626
Life magazine profile 629–30
and Yang 532
excluded from Kennedy’s reception 651
awarded Fermi Prize 655
at RO’s award ceremony 657
Temple Emanu-El, New York 10, 13, 15
Thomas, J. Parnell 524
Thompson, L. T. E. 411, 412
Thomson, G. P. 293, 295
Thomson, J. J. 86, 99, 115
Thornton, Robert 207, 216
Tibbets, Colonel Paul 445, 448
Timayenis, Telemachus: The American Jew 16
Time magazine 38, 182, 266, 506, 593
article on RO 523-5, 527, 532, 539–40
articles on Strauss 593–4, 595
article on Oppenheimer case 625–6
Times, The 190
Titanic, RMS 29
Tizard, Henry 293
Tokyo, fire-bombing of (1945) 429
Tolman, Richard:
works with G. N. Lewis 166
and RO’s lecture on Dirac’s theory 172–3
Millikan’s letter to 175–6
> friendship with RO 174, 213, 276, 478
and Einstein 197
and Volkoff 248–9
at Berkeley meeting on H-bomb 319
suggests ‘implosion’ concept 352, 410, 411
responsible for ordnance 354
collaborates on ‘Smyth Report’ 458–9
Tolman, Ruth 173, 174, 213, 276, 478
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro 208, 283, 514–15, 517, 530
‘transformation theory’ (Dirac) 130, 171
Treiman, Sam 642, 667
Trimethy (sloop) 31, 39–40, 72, 73, 140
‘Trinity Project’/test 48n, 426–8, 429, 432, 437–42, 444, 448, 449, 452
tritium 545, 548, 566, 568
Truman, Harry S., President:
‘pepped up’ by ‘Trinity’ test 441
and Stimson 437
at Potsdam Conference (1945) 432, 442
tells Stalin about atomic bomb 443
and Hiroshima 444, 449, 450
returns to Washington 452
orders bombing to stop 455
and Japanese surrender 456
orders secrecy about atomic bomb 459
and ALAS statement urging international cooperation 464–5
and May–Johnson Bill 473
clashes with RO 475–6, 488
his US-centric view 477, 479, 482
rejects possibility of Soviet bomb 484, 589
signs McMahon Bill 492
chooses Lilienthal as AEC chairman 493
and FBI suspicions of RO 499
announces Truman Doctrine 500
and news of Soviet bomb 543
and US H-bomb programme 543–4, 552–3, 554–5, 557, 559, 560, 562
told about Fuchs 556
‘regrets’ RO’s resignation from GAC 578
does not seek re-election 582
and postponement of ‘Mike’ test 584
Tsien, Hsue-Shen 236
‘Tube Alloys’ project 307, 390, 391, 397, 399, 402, 406
Tuck, James 391, 403–4, 418
‘tunnelling’ see ‘quantum tunnelling’
Turner, Louis 264, 305
Uehling, Edwin 211, 212, 273, 276, 282, 290
Uhlenbeck, Else 141, 169, 211
Uhlenbeck, George:
identifies ‘spin’ of electrons 113, 158
and RO 113, 131, 132
accepts position at Michigan 132, 141
welcomed to New York by RO 141
at Ann Arbor summer school 141, 149
and RO’s research on quantum mechanics 208, 209
with him at Ann Arbor and Perro Caliente 211
accepts Utrecht post 211
returns to Michigan 255
and news of nuclear fission 255
at Shelter Island Conference 501
speaks at dedication of Bohr Library (1962) 652
RO’s letters to 131, 132, 153, 208, 209, 250, 258
Ulam, Françoise 567
Ulam, Stanislaw (Stan) 419
collaborates with Teller on H-bomb design 560–61, 565, 566–8, 584–6, 594, 608–9
‘uncertainty principle’ (Heisenberg) 131, 137, 138
University of Peace 659–60
uranium 87, 253
sources 44, 262–3, 323, 482, 485
fission 252–4, 256–8, 261, 291, 356, 394
critical mass 291–2, 306, 316
chain reactions 262, 263, 293, 295
extraction of U-235 293–4, 304–6
enriched 311, 323, 324
bomb design 316–20, 330–31, 351–2, 405ff., see ‘Little Boy’
Urey, Harold 183, 196, 328, 329
and Birge 167
discovers deuterium 183, 193
hears news of nuclear fission 255
gives advice on isotope separation 304
on S-1 committee 307, 308
reports on Beams’ research 309
works on gaseous-diffusion 324
and May–Johnson Bill 465, 473
and RO hearing 621
Utrecht, University of 154, 211
‘vacuum polarisation’ 287
Valentine, Alan 536
Vandenberg, General Hoyt 544–5, 565
Vanderbilts, the 9, 17
van Vleck, John H. 317, 319, 422–3, 496
Vaughan, General Harry 499
Veblen, Oswald 508
Velde, Harold 533, 535
Venona transcripts 300, 390, 424, 556
Vilar, Jean 661
Virgin Islands 628, 641, 650, 666, 667
Vlaminck, Maurice de 173
Volkoff, George 245, 247, 259, 264, 273
‘On Massive Neutron Cores’ (with RO) 248–9, 251
Volpe, Joseph 499, 533, 539, 602, 603, 663
von Neumann, John 412–13, 414, 416–17 and n, 418, 560–61, 565, 655
Ulam to 567
Voorhis Act (1940) 275, 280
Waddington, C. H. 96
Wall Street Crash (1929) 173
Wallace, Henry A. 455, 473, 475
Walton, Ernest 188–90, 191, 193, 195, 196, 252
Warburg, Felix 54
Washburn, Mary Ellen 234, 386
Washington Evening Star 255
Washington Post 656, 661, 663
Washington Times-Herald 536
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited 123
‘wave mechanics’ (Schrödinger) 107–8, 115–16, 130, 171
Waymack, William T. 493
Webb, Dr Gerald B. 150
Wehl, Hermann 218n
Weil, André 654
Weinbaum, Sidney 236
Weinberg, Joseph (‘Joe’) 259
as RO’s student at Berkeley 259–60, 264, 313
considered a security risk 312
passes information to Nelson 343, 344
under FBI surveillance 343–4, 345, 357
employed by RO 346, 357
identified as ‘Joe’ 358
as part of ‘spy ring’ 358–9, 366
meeting with RO 368, 375
promises to stay away from politics 368
passes manuscript to Communist sympathisers 374–5
and RO’s disloyalty 378
hosts party for Lomanitz and Friedman 379
suspected of being RO’s unnamed professor 381
interviewed by FBI 494
at Minnesota University 533
subpoenaed by HUAC 532, 533
fired by University 536
Weinberg, Steven 100
Weisskopf, George 244–5
Weisskopf, Victor 151, 183
and Ehrenfest 151–2
and first atomic explosion 440
on ALAS committee 463, 472
at Shelter Island Conference 501–2, 503, 504
joins RO on plane to Boston 505
appalled by his treatment of Peters 535–6
opposed to H-bomb 552, 555, 557–8
supports RO 621
and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658
speaks at his memorial service 669
Weizsäcker, Carl von 394, 402, 440
Wentzel, Gregor 136
Western Consumers Union 237–8
Weyl, Hermann 218
Wheeler, John Archibald 250–51, 255, 260–61, 263, 393, 501, 513, 516, 558–9, 560, 586, 640
Where We Stand (TV programme) 642–3
White, Milton 664
White, Steve 488–9
‘white dwarfs’ 246, 247, 248, 249, 250
Whitehead, A. N. 81–2, 83
Whitney, Hassler 634
Whitson, Lish 383, 384
Wiersma, E. C. 132
Wigner, Eugene 211, 217, 261, 262–3, 285, 306, 324, 325, 412, 655, 658
Williams, J. H. 340
Williams, William Howell 166, 167, 171, 175
Wilson, Anne 444, 471, 506
Wilson, Charles, Defense Secretary 598
Wilson, General Donald 561, 616
Wilson, Jane 339
Wilson, Robert 330, 339–40, 348, 353, 354, 406, 432, 463�
�4, 467
Wings over Europe (Nichols and Browne) 190
Wolff, Herbert 20, 21
Wood, John 532
Woolf, Virginia 90, 138
World War, First 31–3, 35, 89
Worthington, Hood 495
Wouthuysen, Sig 508
‘The Multiple Production of Mesons’ (with RO and H. Lewis) 509
Wu, Chien Shiung 640
Wyman, Jeffries 78–9, 80, 81, 91, 96, 107, 108–9, 111–12
Wyman, Jeffries (grandfather) 78
Yale University 55
Jews 52
Yang, Chen Ning 632, 640–41, 642, 654, 657, 665, 666
Yukawa, Hideki 525, 541–2, 666
new particle hypothesis 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 491, 502, 510
Zacharias, Jerrold 579, 580, 581, 591
Zangwill, Israel: The Melting Pot 7
Zeitschrift für Physik 106, 114, 116, 121, 129, 132, 161, 187
Zeleny, John 168, 169
‘ZORC’ 581, 591
Zubilin, Vasily 345
Zuckert, Eugene 584, 623
Zwicky, Fritz 245, 246, 247
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