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Index
Abelson, Philip M., 274, 348, 349–50, 5
49
liquid thermal diffusion experiments of, 550–53, 580–81, 602
Manhattan Project and, 551–52
Oppenheimer and, 552
Academic Assistance Council, 193
Académie des Sciences, 41, 161–62
acetone, Weizmann’s fermentation process for, 88–90
Acheson, Dean, 619
actinium, 45, 235
actinium-lanthanum experiments, 253–55, 260
Adamson, Keith F., 314–15, 317, 332
Adler, Edward, 494, 495–96
Adler, Felix, 119
Advisory Committee on Uranium, U.S., 315–17, 331–33, 338, 360, 365, 367, 373, 380
Aioi Bridge, 722–23
Air Force, U.S., 478, 480–81, 582–86, 589, 591, 594, 597–98, 600, 650, 667, 737
Akers, Wallace, 495–96, 522
Alexander II, Czar of Russia, 180
Alexander III, Czar of Russia, 180
Alexandra Feodorovna, Czarina of Russia, 183
Alexandrov, A. P., 502
Allied Expeditionary Force, 629–30
Allier, Jacques, 327, 330
Allis-Chalmers, 490–91
Allison, Keith, 566
Allison, Samuel K., 373, 379
Compton and, 401
Los Alamos and, 465
pile studies and, 401, 411, 438, 559
Trinity and, 667–69
alpha rays, 42–43, 45
scattering of, 47–51, 66, 130, 135–36, 151–52
ALSOS Mission, 605–10, 612–13
Alvarez, Luis W., 143–46, 150, 273–74, 349, 759
detonators invented by, 654–55
Hiroshima bomb run and, 709
implosion experiments and, 547, 574–75
Kistiakowsky and, 574–75
Neddermeyer and, 547
Oppenheimer and, 453–54, 467
pile studies and, 399, 439
Amaldi, Edoardo, 240–41
neutron-bombardment experiments and, 208–9, 211–12, 216–21, 231
Amaldi, Ginestra, 219, 249
American Association of Scientific Workers, 381–82, 446–47
American Physical Society, 146, 297
Amidei, Adolfo, 205
Anchor Ranch, 541
Anderson, Carl, 199
Anderson, David, 655
Anderson, Herbert, 268–70, 273
Fermi and, 280–81, 288, 291, 298–301, 333–34, 395, 397, 433, 436–37
Libby and, 428, 437
mass spectrographic isotope separation and, 298