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Damascus, Syria, 194
Danube River, 22
Darwin, Charles, 241
Day Lewis, Cecil, 159–60, 314
Day Lewis, Daniel, 160
“Death of a Project” (Dyson), 314
“Deciphering of the Mycenean Script, The” (Wace), 190
Defense Department, U.S., 246
de Hoffmann, Freddy, 210–11, 249, 267
Delaware, 316
Democratic Party, 90–91, 116
Denver, Colo., 88
Der hochrote Hahn (The Flaming Red Rooster) (Rumpf), 51
Descartes, René, 12
Dewey, Robert, 116, 118
de Witt, Bryce, 124
DeWitt-Morette, Cécile, 114–17, 121, 124–26, 159, 194
Dirac, Paul Maurice Adrien, xii, 2–6, 16–17, 22, 101, 129–31, 243
Disney, Walt, 221
Dixiecrats, 91, 116
Doll’s House, A (Ibsen), 228, 230
Doors of Perception, The (Huxley), 189
Dortmund, Germany, 52
Double Helix, The (Watson), xiii
Downe House school, 39
Drake, Frank, 271
Dresden, Germany, 42–43
Dr. Strangelove (film), 320–21
Dublin, Ireland, 116, 127
Dublin Institute for Advanced Study, 116, 124
Dukas, Helen, 275–76, 290, 315, 325, 345, 347, 349–51
Düsseldorf, Germany, 21
Dyson, Alice (sister), xv–xvi, 172, 222, 226, 289, 361
Dyson, Dorothy (daughter), 268, 272–73, 294, 316, 326–27
Dyson, Emily (daughter), 294, 308, 327, 345, 364–65, 368–70
Dyson, Esther (daughter), 168, 180, 192–95, 227, 230, 233–40, 245, 253–55, 259, 264–65, 269, 275, 316, 327–29, 332, 336, 341
Dyson, George (father), xv–xvi, 2–5, 32, 42–43, 96, 168, 213, 313, 329
Dyson, George, Jr. (son), xvi, 183, 193, 227, 230, 233–42, 245–48, 253–55, 259, 264, 269, 275, 294, 308, 313, 327–32, 336–41, 364–71, 376–78
Dyson, Imme Jung (2nd wife), 223–26, 229–38, 244, 247–48, 253–61, 264, 268, 272, 275–76, 289, 308, 311–12, 321–24, 329–32, 338, 344–45, 349, 352–53, 362, 377–79, 382
Dyson, Katrin, see Halm, Katrin Haefeli (step-daughter)
Dyson, Mia (daughter), 289–90, 316, 321, 326–27, 380–82
Dyson, Mildred (mother), xv–xvi, 168, 172, 221, 263, 321, 326–29, 361
Dyson, Rebecca (daughter), 326
Dyson, Verena Huber (1st wife), 151–53, 156–62, 165–69, 174–78, 192–94, 198, 222, 226–29, 232, 235–36, 253–54, 257, 260–62
East Germany, 50
Eastman Kodak Company, 133, 143
Eckmann, Beno, 165
Eddington, Arthur, 27
Egypt, 216–17, 304–5
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 207
Einstein, Albert, 27, 42, 64, 80, 100–104, 107, 124, 147, 150, 186, 266, 275–76, 342, 347–51
Einstein, Margot, 276, 290
Einstein: The Life and Times (Clark), 347
Einstein on Peace (Nathan & Norden), 275
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 196, 216, 276
Eliot, T. S., 71, 109–10, 125–26
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 311, 358
England, xi, xiii, 5, 12, 18, 21–22, 25, 28, 31–33, 49, 52, 55–62, 66, 70, 74–78, 93, 98, 101, 105–6, 117, 144, 163–65, 172, 202–4, 216, 230–31, 236, 272, 289–91, 314, 357, 372
Epps, Emma, 374–75
Erdos, Paul, 283
Essen, Germany, 52
Etzioni, Amitai, 286
Euclid, 2
Eureka, 20
Europe, xv, 6, 22, 37–38, 62, 65, 70, 74, 79–81, 105, 117, 123–25, 137, 142, 145–47, 158, 164, 182, 194–96, 201, 217, 258, 264, 296, 332, 362, 372
European Southern Observatory, 362
Evers, Medgar, 302
Explorer satellite, 253
Eyges, Leonard, 57, 63
Eyges, Trudy, 63, 71
Face to Face (Mehta), 311
Faraday, Michael, 79, 378
Farmer, James, 300
Federal Institute of Technology, 167
Federation of American Scientists (FAS), 274–76, 281–84, 287, 290–91, 296–98, 317
Federation of British Industries, 41
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 171–72, 311
Fermi, Enrico, 123, 179–80, 201, 302
Feynman, Richard, 56, 59–62, 71–73, 82–86, 98–99, 104, 110–17, 122, 131, 135, 138–41, 148, 154, 163–64, 167, 196, 200, 208, 316–17
Fierz, Markus, 162
Flexner, Abraham, 322
Florida, 319
Ford Company, 285
Foreign Affairs, 269–71
“Forsaken Merman, The” (Arnold), 221, 226
Foster, William, 295
France, xv, 2, 5, 36, 50, 115, 121, 124, 146, 210, 216–17, 281
Franco, Francisco, 36
Frankfurt, Germany, 58
Freiburg, Germany, 44
French Revolution, 52
From Immigrant to Inventor (Pupin), 79
Fuchs, Klaus, 162–64
Fulbright, William, 298
Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 210
Gell-Mann, Murray, 134
Gelsenkirchen, 51
General Atomic, 204, 210–14, 222, 233, 241–42, 245–50, 267, 274, 312
Geneva, Switzerland, 362
Geneva Convention, 153, 210, 286
Genoa, Italy, 168
Georgievitch, Freeman, 208
Germany, 21–22, 25, 29–31, 37, 48, 51–54, 57, 60, 65, 70, 74, 81, 92, 153, 163, 216–17, 226, 255, 259, 272, 301, 314, 322, 361
Ghost Train, The (film), 33
Gibbons, Mila, 227–28
Gibbs, Willard, 280
Glasgow, Scotland, 38
Goddard Spacecraft Center, 293
Gödel, Kurt, 34, 106–8, 127, 223
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 68, 251, 333
Gold, Tommy, 217–18
Goldman, Hetty, 343
Gorbachev, Mikhail, xii
Gordonstoun school, 29–30, 301
Göttingen, Germany, 71, 243, 310
Greenbaum, Edward, 325
“Green Grow the Rushes, O” (song), 48
Green Revolution, 70
Groves, Leslie, 325
Haefeli, Hans Georg, 152, 165, 168, 190, 194, 222, 261
Haefeli, Verena, see Dyson, Verena Huber
Hahn, Kurt, 29–30, 36, 301
Hahn, Lola Warburg, 39–40
Hahn, Oskar, 29–30, 35–41, 301
Hahn, Otto, 59
Half-Life (Close), 202
Halm, Jason (son-in-law), 341, 377
Halm, Katrin Haefeli (step-daughter), 151–52, 156–59, 167, 174, 180, 183, 187–88, 205, 226–28, 232, 238–39, 244, 252–56, 261–62, 341, 364, 376–77
Hamburg, Germany, 40, 45
Hamm, Germany, 52
Hanson Island, 364–67, 370
Hard Way to Peace, The (Etzioni), 286
Hardy, Godfrey Harold, vii, xi, 1–6, 10, 17–19, 22–24, 27
Hardy, Thomas, 160
Harkness Foundation, 56, 117
Harriman, Averell, 295
Harvard University, 67, 74, 184, 188–90, 334–36, 379
Harwell Laboratory, 163–65, 201, 281
Haverford College, 293
Hawking, Stephen, 341–42
Haydn, Franz Joseph, 229, 313
Heartbreak House (Shaw), 33
Hegel, Georg, 12
Heisenberg, Werner, 59, 112–13, 129, 243
Helyg Farm, 7–9
Herbert, George, xiv
Hill, Yelizaveta (Elizabeth) Fyodorovna, 2, 9, 12–13, 16–17
Himalaya mountain range, 6, 281
Hiroshima, Japan, 140, 182
History of the Conquest of Mexico, The (Prescott), 263
History of the Conquest of Peru, The (Prescott), 263
Hitchcock, Alfred, 120
Hitler, Adolf, xi
, xv, 3–5, 18, 21, 31, 42, 57, 60, 129, 216–17
Hoffmann, Banesh, 347–48
Holland, 110, 165
Holton, Gerald, 348
Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), 36
Homer, 78, 192
Houston, Tex., 292–93
Hu, Ning, 127, 131, 148, 200
Huber, Charles, 153
Huls, Germany, 50
Hungary, 44, 78, 216–17, 297
Huxley, Aldous, 9, 188–89
Ibsen, Henrik, 228–30
Iliad (Homer), 78
Illinois, 83, 94
Immigration Service, 198–99
Imperial College, 38, 309–10
Incorporated Society of Musicians, 32
India, 146, 153, 189, 281, 325
Indiana, 83, 99, 323
Indiana, University of, 319
Indian Ocean, 32
Infeld, Leopold, 150
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), 121
Institute for Advanced Study, 64, 77, 102, 124, 150, 153, 163, 186, 223, 241, 343
Institute Housing Project, 111, 151–52, 160
Institute of Physics, 309
International Congress of Mathematicians, 166, 194
International Physics Conference, 157, 162
Iowa, 94, 98
Iraq War, 274
Ireland, 127, 162
Israel, 304–5, 325–26
Italy, 54
Ithaca, N.Y., 56, 72–73, 114–15, 148, 168–73, 180, 217, 329
see also Cornell University
Ivy Mike test, 178–79
Jacobs, Hilde, 75, 92–94, 148, 162
Japan, 9, 36–37, 68, 80–81, 102, 123, 158, 163–64
JASON group, 274–76, 360
Jeffreys, Harold, 27, 32–33
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 253, 293
Johnson, Lyndon B., 275, 289, 302–3
Joliot, Frédéric, 62
Jordan, 304
Journal of the American Optical Society, 360
Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 34
Jung family (in-laws), 255, 313, 318, 322–23, 326, 352, 362–63
see also Dyson, Imme Jung (2nd wife)
Jupiter, 241, 248, 378
Käferbock, Richard, 53, 158
Kai-shek, Chiang, 34
Källén, Gunnar, 200
Kanazawa, Japan, 352
Kansas, 83, 88
Kant, Immanuel, 12
Kapitsa, Pyotr, 197
Kaufman, Bruria, 124
Kaufner, Margot, 254–57, 262
Kaysen, Carl, 318–25, 329–30, 349–50
Keats, John, 265
Kennan, George, xiv, 76, 217, 222, 278–79, 325
Kennedy, Edward, 337
Kennedy, John F., 275, 278–80, 284, 289–95, 301–3, 308, 319, 332, 337
Kennedy, Robert F., 302
Kennedy Performing Arts Center, 381
Keynes, John Maynard, 23, 30
Key West, Fla., 276
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 216
Khrushchev, Nikita, 207, 269, 280, 285, 299
King, Martin Luther, 300, 332
King’s College, 23, 78–79
Kinoshita, Toichiro, 181
Kip, Arthur, 185, 201
Kipling, Rudyard, xvi
Kittel, Charles, 185, 201
Kitt Peak National Observatory, 220
Kolmogorov, Andrey, 197
Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) movement, 31
Kreisel, Georg, 12, 31, 37, 152, 223, 226, 236, 253–54, 259, 262
Kreiseliana (Dyson), 152
Kroll, Norman, 120–21
Kubrick, Stanley, 320–21
Kyoto, Japan, 102
La Jolla, Calif., 204, 210–15, 222–23, 233, 241, 245–69, 315–16, 357–59, 364
Lakewood, N.J., 156
Landau, Edmund, 35
Landau, Lev, 197
Landau, Matthias, 35–36
Lapland, Norway, 14
Lattes, Eugenio, 69, 141–43
Lawrence, David H., 327
Lawrence, Ernest, 69
Lee, Tsung Dao, 179, 225, 232–34, 239–40, 243
Leeds, England, 105
Lehmann, Harry, 243–44
Leibnitz, Gottfried, 12
Lenard, Andrew, 319–20
Leningrad, see St. Petersburg, Russia
Lennox, Ed, 57, 82, 91–92
Lennox, Helen, 91–92, 165
Les Houches summer school, 121, 194
Lie, Trygve, 55
Lieb, Elliott, 320
Life, 151
Lighthill, James, 27, 291–92
Lilienthal, David, 161
Lincoln, Abraham, 140, 299–300
Lincoln College, 357–58
Lithuania, 65
“Little Mermaid, The” (Andersen), 221
Littlewood, John Edensor, 1, 2, 9, 17, 26–28, 35, 320
Livingstone, Stanley, 174–75
“Loch Lomond” (song), 48
Lodge, Oliver, 98
London, England, xv–xvi, 5, 9–11, 16, 25, 32, 37–42, 162, 172, 187, 191, 251, 311, 361, 378
Long, Frank, 284, 287, 295
Long Island, N.Y., 174–76, 228–29, 233–34, 281, 315
Lörrach, Germany, 162
Los Alamos, N.Mex., 56–57, 62–63, 72, 86, 163, 177, 196, 210–15, 222–23, 245–50, 274, 282–83, 298, 325
Los Angeles, Calif., 83, 254, 315
Lublin, Poland, 21
Lucerne, Switzerland, 261–62
Lviv, Ukraine, 282
Lysenko, Trofim, 129–30
Macafee, Walter, 57, 70
Macmillan, Harold, 291
Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 34
Malloff, Will, 365–67, 372
Malory, Thomas, 357–59
Manchester, England, 24
Manchuria, 34
Manhattan Project, 325
Mann, Thomas, 34
Manned Spacecraft Center, 292–93
March on Washington (1963), 296, 299–301
Mars, 241, 265, 306–7, 339, 345, 378
Marshak, Robert, 62
Marshall, George, 76
Marx, Karl, 26, 130
Maryland, 293
Massachusetts, 152, 194
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 57, 74, 132, 154
Mauritius concentration camp, 31–32
Max, Claire, 360
Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, 361
Maxwell, James Clerk, 78–79, 115, 280
McGovern, George, 341
McMillan, Edwin, 132
McPhee, John, 359
Meany, George, 299
Mehra, Jagdish, 347–51
Mehta, Madan Lal, 280–81
Mehta, Ved, 311–12
Meitner, Lise, 240
Mendel, Gregor, 129
“Merchant Was There with a Forked Beard, A” (song), 173
Mercury, 345
Meselson, Matthew, 340
Metropolitan Opera, 32
Mexico, 68, 213, 215, 255, 259, 263
Mexico City, Mexico, 261–64
Michigan, 90, 165
Michigan, University of, 82, 124, 138, 153
Middle East, 28, 53, 305, 309, 325
Mihailovich, General, 16
Milner, Yuri, 342
Minkowski, Hermann, 42
Mississippi, 302, 317
Missouri, 83, 188
Moonchildren (Weller), 379–80
“Moon River” (song), 345
Moore, George, 12
Mordell, Louis, 166
Morette, Cécile, see DeWitt-Morette, Cécile
Morrison, Philip, 56, 59, 62–64, 68, 71, 77
Moscow, Russia, 11, 25, 195–204, 207–10, 279, 286, 294–95, 319
Moseley, Henry, 24
Moslem University, 146
Motchane, Léon, 121
Mott, Nevill, 62, 105
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 47
Mugabe, Robert, 375
Müller, Edith, 174
Münich, Germany, 361–63
Münster, University of, 42, 75, 92
Münster Municipal Orchestra, 44
Münster Opera Company, 47
Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 109
Nagasaki, Japan, 60, 123, 182
Nambu, Yoichiro, 181
Napoleon, Bonaparte, xii, 66
Nassau, Bahamas, 291
Nasser, Gamal, 216
Nathan, Otto, 275, 347–48, 351
National Academy of Sciences, 310–11
National Fire Service, 35–37
National Gallery, 109
National Science Foundation, 196
Nature, 206, 209
Navajo Indians, 87
Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), 44–46
Navy, U.S., 276
Nebraska, 94
Ne’eman, Yuval, 304–5
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 98, 189
Nevada, 86, 94
New Jersey, 156, 254, 328
New Mexico, 72, 85–86, 114
“New Symmetry of Partitions, A” (Dyson), 333
Newton, Isaac, 30
New York, N.Y., 32, 55, 72, 78, 105, 109, 117–18, 134, 138, 157–58, 164, 168, 179, 187, 216, 226–28, 234, 252, 272, 276–77, 290–92, 310–11, 342, 379
see also Columbia University
New Yorker, 151, 359
New York Herald Tribune, 313
New York State, 83, 315
see also Ithaca, N.Y.; Rochester, N.Y.; Syracuse, N.Y.
New York Times, 200, 379
Niebuhr, Reinhold, xiv, 109–10
Niels Bohr Institute, 116
Nixon, Richard, 275, 340
Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 98
Nobel Prize for Literature, 125
Nobel Prize for Physics, 102, 116, 118, 121, 154, 179, 239–40, 316–17, 329
No First Use policy, 278–79, 297–98
Northern Isles, 365–66
Notre Dame University, 282–83
Oakeshott, Walter, 357–59
Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 2, 9–11, 16
Ohio, 70, 83, 99, 144
Okinawa, Japan, 37
Oklahoma, 83–85
Oldstone Conference, 153
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 303
“Open Mind, The” (Oppenheimer), 139
Oppenheimer, Kitty, xiv, 226–27, 230–31, 303, 310, 320–24
Oppenheimer, Robert, xiv, 63–64, 67–71, 80, 99–103, 108–12, 117–22, 125–26, 130–31, 134–41, 145, 150, 153–56, 161–62, 167, 176–77, 186–87, 193–95, 206, 212, 219, 226, 230–31, 245–46, 252, 266, 271, 302–3, 310, 315, 318, 321–25
Orbiting Astronomical Observatories (OAO), 292
Orgel, Leslie, 312
Orion project, 242, 267, 270, 283, 295–96, 314
Orwell, George, 36
Ostflüchtlingen, 53
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 302
Oxford, England, 357–58
Oxford University, 2, 100, 131, 182
Padfield, Henry, 13, 16
Pais, Abraham, 110, 120
Pakistan, 309
Palestine, 325
Panofsky, Dora and Erwin, 374–75
Panofsky, Wolfgang, 336, 375