by John Gribbin
and the quantum revolution 1, 2
and relativity theory 1, 2
speed of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
in terms of particles 1, 2
‘travelling in straight lines’ theory refuted 1, 2
as a wave 1, 2, 3, 4
Lilly, John 1
Linde, Andrei 1
lines of force 1, 2
liquid helium 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
liquid helium I 1
liquid helium II 1, 2
Lopes, Leite 1
Lorentz invariant 1
Los Alamos National Laboratory 1
M
MacDonald (of Thiokel) 1
Mach’s Principle 1, 2
McLellan, William 1
magnetic poles 1, 2
magnetism 1, 2, 3
Manhattan Project 1, 2 Bethe and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
F. as a group leader (Theoretical Computations Group) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
first nuclear explosion on Earth (Trinity test) 1
F. starts work (1942) 1
lack of safety precautions 1
nears completion 1
uranium separation 1, 2
Wilson tells F. of 1
‘many worlds’ idea 1
Marshak, Robert 1, 2, 3
masers 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Artificial Intelligence Lab 1
Carl studies at 1
F. applies to 1
F. changes courses 1
F. gains a scholarship at 1
F. graduates 1
flexibility of 1
F. starts at 1
and Jewish students 1
Phi Beta Delta 1, 2
Sigma Alpha Mu 1
mathematics, and physics 1, 2
Mautner, Alix 1, 2
Mautner, Leonard 1, 2, 3
Maxwell, James Clerk 1, 2, 3, 4
Maxwell’s equations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Mehra, Jagdish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Mendeleyev, Dmitri 1
Mensa 1
Meselson, Matt 1, 2
mesons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Messenger Lectures 1, 2
Metallurgical Laboratory, Chicago 1
Michigan State University 1
microwaves, and hydrogen atoms 1
Millikan, Robert 1
Minsk, Byelorussia 1
Minsky, Marvin 1, 2
Mir publishing house 1
Moore, Lillian 1
Morette, Cecile 1, 2
Morinigo, Fernando 1
Morrison, Philip 1
Morse, Philip 1, 2, 3
Morton, Dr 1, 2, 3
Most of the Good Stuff (Brown and Rigden, eds.) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
motion, laws of 1, 2, 3, 4
Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena 1
Mount Wilson Observatory, San Gabriel Mountains 1
N
Nagasaki 1
nanotechnology 1
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
National Academy of Sciences 1, 2, 3
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles 1
Natural Selection 1
nature F.’s attitude towards 1, 2, 3
F.’s father introduces him to 1
F.’s father’s insight 1
and gravity 1
and parity conservation 1
and QED 1
and the speed of electromagnetic wave movement 1
Nature 1, 2
Ne’eman, Yuval 1, 2, 3
negative roots 1
Neher, Victor 1
Neugebauer, Otto 1
Neumann, John von 1
neutrino and beta decay 1
discovery of 1
equation of 1
and weak interactions 1, 2
neutron decay 1, 2, 3
neutron stars 1
neutrons affected by the strong force 1
beta decay of 1
electrically neutral 1
electrons bouncing off 1
identified 1
and nuclear fission 1
quarks and 1
and radioactive decay 1
slowing down 1
and weak interactions 1, 2
Newman, Tom 1
Newton, Sir Isaac 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Nobel, Alfred 1
Nobel Committee 1, 2, 3
No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (ed. Sykes) 1
nuclear fission 1
Nuclear Research Laboratory, Cornell 1
nucleus and nuclear fission 1
structure of 1, 2
Nuovo Cimento, Il 1
O
O rings 1, 2
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1, 2
‘Ofey’ 1
Oldstone Conference (1949) 1
Oldstone-on-the-Hudson, Peekskill, New York 1
Onnes, Kamerlingh 1
‘On the Silk Road’ exhibition 1, 2, 3
Oppenheimer, Robert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 death 1
as director of the Institute for Advanced Study 1, 2, 3
and the National Academy of Sciences 1
as scientific head of the Manhattan Project 1, 2, 3
and students 1
tries to lure F. to Berkeley 1
optics 1, 2, 3, 4
orbital 1
P
Pachos, Emmanuel 1
parallel processing 1, 2, 3
parallel realities 1
parity conservation/violation 1, 2
particle accelerators 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
particles 1, 2 and antiparticles 1, 2
interactions 1, 2, 3, 4
virtual 1
partons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Patchogue, Long Island 1
path integral approach (‘sum over histories’ approach) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 see also under quantum electrodynamics; quantum mechanics
Pauli, Wolfgang 1
Payne-Gaposhkin, Cecilia 1
Pearl Harbor 1
Periodic Table 1
perturbation technique 1, 2
Phillips, Henry (F.’s maternal grandfather) 1, 2
Phillips, Johanna (née Helinsky; F.’s maternal grandmother) marries Henry Phillips 1
works with her father in New York 1
photoelectric effect 1
photons and electrons 1, 2
and experiment with two holes 1, 2
and gravitons 1
named 1
scattering by an electric field 1
scattering by other photons 1
virtual 1, 2, 3
Physical Review 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Physics atomic 1
conservation of energy 1
experimental 1
Feynman family’s love of 1
F.’s father’s insight 1
F.’s lectures on introductory 1
F.’s love of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
F.’s most important contribution to 1
as fun xiv, 1, 2, 3
high energy 1
and mathematics 1, 2
particle 1, 2, 3, 4
solid state 1, 2, 3
theoretical nuclear 1
Physics Letters 1
Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion 1
Pines, David 1
pions 1
Planck length 1
Planck, Max 1, 2, 3, 4
Planck’s constant 1, 2, 3
Playa de la Mision, Baja California 1
plutonium-239 1
plutonium, critical mass 1
Pocono Conference (1948) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
positrons and electrons 1, 2, 3, 4
named 1
positively charged 1, 2
virtual 1
Preskill, John 1
Princeton 1
Princeton University 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 bicentennial celebration (1946) 1
cyclotron 1
first-class physics school 1
F. leaves 1
F. rejec
ts honorary degree 1
F. starts research at 1, 2
imitates Oxford and Cambridge 1
and Jewish students 1
offers F. a research assistantship 1
Principle of Least Action 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Principle of Least Time 1, 2
Principles of Quantum Mechanics, The (Dirac) 1
protons affected by the strong force 1
magnetic moment of 1
positively charged 1, 2
quarks and 1, 2
and radioactive decay 1
role of the 1
and weak interactions 1, 2
punctuated equilibrium 1
Q
QCD see quantum chromodynamics
QED see quantum electrodynamics
QED and the Men Who Made It (Schweber) 1
quanta, Planck and 1
quantum chromodynamics (QCD) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
quantum electrodynamics (QED) 1, 2, 3 Bethe’s discovery 1
Dyson’s paper 1
F. describes his path to 1
F.’s approach 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
and infinities 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and QCD 1, 2
and Rabi’s discovery 1
success of 1, 2, 3
quantum gravity 1, 2
quantum of length 1
quantum mechanics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ‘central mystery’ of 1, 2
and classical mechanics 1
F. carries the theory to its greatest fruition 1
at MIT 1
and modern understanding of chemistry 1
path integral (‘sum over histories’) approach 1, 2, 3
in the presence of gravity 1
spacetime approach 1, 2, 3
transactional interpretation of 1, 2
quantum physics 1, 2, 3, 4 becomes F.’s vocation 1
F.’s greatest work in 1, 2
and the Lagrangian approach 1, 2, 3
wave-particle duality as a key ingredient 1
quantum probability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
quantum revolution 1
quarks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
quasars 1, 2
R
Rabi, Isidor 1, 2
radiation electromagnetic 1, 2
gravitational 1
Wheeler–Feynman theory (absorber theory) 1, 2, 3, 4
radiation resistance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman, The’ (Dyson) 1
radio 1, 2, 3
radioactive decay 1
Radio Moscow 1, 2
radio waves 1
Raramuri people 1
relativistic pancakes 1, 2
relativity 1, 2, 3 built into F.’s version of quantum theory 1
Feynman family’s interest in 1
F. teaches himself in high school 1
General Theory of (1916) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Special Theory of (1905) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
renormalization 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) 1, 2, 3
Retherford, Robert 1
Reviews of Modem Physics 1, 2, 3
Ride, Sally 1
Rigden, John 1, 2
Rio de Janeiro 1, 2, 3
Robertson, H. P. 1
‘Rochester’ conference, Switzerland (1958) 1n
Rochester, New York conference (1956) 1
Rochester, New York conference (1957) 1, 2, 3
Rogers Commission 1, 2, 3, 4
Rogers, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Russell, Henry Norris 1
Rutherford, Ernest 1
Rutishauser, Tom 1, 2
S
S (scalar) interactions 1, 2
Salam, Abdus 1
Sands, Matthew 1, 2, 3
scale invariance 1
Schenectady, New York 1, 2
Schrieffer, Robert 1
Schrödinger equation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Schrödinger, Erwin 1, 2, 3
Schrödinger’s cat paradox 1, 2, 3
Schweber, Silvan 1, 2
Schwinger, Julian 1, 2 American Physical Society meeting (1948) 1
at Ann Arbor 1, 2
calculates the magnetic moment of the electron 1
compares notes with F. 1
complicated method 1, 2, 3, 4
Dyson and 1
Pocono Conference 1, 2
shares Nobel prize with F. and Tomonaga 1, 2
at the Shelter Island Conference 1
version of the Lamb shift calculation 1
science, key to 1
Scientific American 1
Scituate 1
Segre, Emilio 1
sensory deprivation 1
Shaw, Christopher (F.’s nephew) 1
Shaw, Jacqueline (née Howarth; F.’s sister-in-law) 1, 2
Shelter Island Conference 1, 2, 3, 4
Sherman, Richard 1
Shermer, Michael 1, 2
Shockley, William 1
Skeptics Society 1
Slater, John 1, 2, 3, 4
Slotnick, Murray 1, 2
Smyth, H. D. 1
solid geometry 1
South Pacific 1
Soviet Academy of Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4
Soviet Ministry of Culture 1
Sovinfilm 1
space, ‘across the page’ 1, 2
spacetime 1 diagrams 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
F. visualizes quantum processes in 1
as flat 1
in four dimensions 1
Special Theory of Relativity see under relativity
spectra, and Schrödinger’s wave equation 1
standing wave 1
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 1, 2, 3
Stanford University 1, 2, 3
Steady State hypothesis 1
stellar structure 1, 2
Stratton, Julius 1
strong force/interaction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
subatomic particles discovery of 1
Sudarshan, George 1, 2, 3
‘sum over histories’ approach see path integral approach (‘sum over histories’ approach)
superconductivity 1, 2, 3, 4
superfluidity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
supermassive stars 1, 2, 3
superposition of states 1, 2
superstring theory 1, 2
Sykes, Christopher 1, 2
T
T (tensor) interactions 1, 2
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens) 1
Tannu Tuva 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
tau 1, 2, 3
Taylor, Richard 1, 2
Theory of Everything (TOE) 1
theta 1, 2, 3
Thinking Machines Corporation 1, 2, 3, 4
Thiokel 1, 2
Thomas, Dylan 1
Thompson, Eric 1
Thompson, J. E. 1
Thompson, S. P. 1
Thomson, George Paget 1
Thomson, J. J. 1, 2
Thorne, Kip 1, 2, 3
Three Quarks 1
time, ‘up the page’ 1, 2
Tiomno, Jaime 1
Titan rocket 1
TOE see Theory of Everything
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro 1, 2, 3, 4
transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics 1, 2
transistor effect 1
Trinity test 1
Tryon, Edward 1
Tuck, Helen 1, 2, 3, 4
Tukey, John 1
Tuvan Research Institute of Language, Literature and History 1
Tuva or Bust! (Leighton) 1
U
Ukonu 1, 2
ultraviolet catastrophe 1
uncertainty 1
United Nations (UN) 1
Universal Law of Gravitation 1
Universal Studios 1
Universe 1 the age of the 1
Big Bang theory 1
big crunch 1
expansion of 1
as flat 1
inflation theory of its origin 1, 2
Steady State hypothesis 1
tiny seed of the 1
‘the total energy of the universe is zero’ hypothesis 1
University College of Los Angeles Medical Center 1, 2, 3, 4
University of California, Berkeley, California 1, 2
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 1, 2, 3
University of Chicago 1, 2, 3
University of London (England) 1
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1, 2, 3
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (conference on the role of gravitation in physics, January 1957) 1
University of Rochester 1
University of Sussex 1
University of Tokyo 1
University of Washington, Seattle 1
University of Wisconsin 1
uranium-235 critical mass 1, 2
nature of 1
separating from uranium-238 1, 2, 3
uranium-238 nature of 1
separating uranium-235 from 1, 2, 3
US State Department 1
V
V (vector) interactions 1, 2, 3
Vainshtein, Sevyan 1, 2
Vallarta, Manuel 1, 2
variational principle 1
Vernon, Frank 1
Vinita, Oklahoma 1, 2
W
Wagner, William 1
Warsaw conference (July 1962) 1
Watson, James 1, 2
wave concepts 1
wave equations 1
wave–particle duality 1, 2
waves 1, 2 advanced 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
confirmation 1, 2
offer 1, 2
out of phase 1, 2, 3
in phase 1, 2, 3
retarded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
weak force/interaction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 theory of weak interaction 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Weinberg, Steven 1, 2
Weiner, Charles 1, 2
Weisskopf, Viktor 1
Welton, Ted 1, 2, 3
Wheeler–Feynman theory of radiation (absorber theory) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
