Paris, France, 115, 121, 201
Park, Clara, 90–92
Pasadena, Calif., 71, 137, 196, 253, 293
Patton, George, 363
Pauli, Wolfgang, 112, 162, 167–68, 206
Pavlichenko, Vladimir, 298, 316
Pearl Harbor, 9
Pedoe, Daniel, 166
Peierls, Genia, 162–63, 167, 265
Peierls, Rudolf, 56–57, 60–61, 63, 135, 137, 147, 162–63, 179, 208
Pennsylvania, 100
Penzias, Arno, xiii
People’s Republic of China, 36, 127, 179, 200, 298
Perm, Russia, 10, 15
Peru, 263
Peters, Wesley, 346
Philadelphia, Pa., 90, 99, 194, 229
Physical Review, 111, 123, 169, 184–85, 209
Physikalische Blätter (German magazine), 348
Pittsburgh, Pa., 99, 206–8
Planck, Max, 361
Pocono Mountains, 153
Poland, 53, 65, 282–83, 314
Pontecorvo, Bruno, 201
Portugal, 36
Powell, Cecil, 61, 69, 105, 132–35, 141–43
Power, Sheila, 124, 127, 131
Princeton, N.J., 33–34, 41, 63–64, 77, 100–102, 131, 147, 151–68, 187, 194–96, 216, 253–54, 262, 266, 275–78, 289–91, 301, 320, 345–46, 349–51, 355–56, 371–73, 377–83
Princeton University, 63, 69, 98–101, 114–16, 127, 138, 141, 152–54, 160, 163–64, 176–84, 195, 202–8, 223, 229, 233, 242–49, 252, 269–73, 279–81, 293, 309–10, 316, 325, 331, 343, 364, 371–73
see also Institute Housing Project
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 168
Profiles of the Future (Clarke), 311
Progress in Theoretical Physics (journal), 102
Progressive Party, 65, 90, 116
Project Orion (Dyson), 242
Pueblo Indians, 87
Pugwash meetings, 298
Pupin, Michael, 78–79
Pylos, Greece, 191–92
Pyrenees mountain range, 4
Quantum Mechanics (Dirac), 129
Queen Elizabeth, RMS, 54–55
Queen Mary, RMS, 167
Quest (Infeld), 150
Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 116–21, 154, 157–58
Radcliffe College, 328–29
Radio Corporation of America (RCA), 105–6
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, xi–xii, 19
Random Matrices (Mehta), 281
Reading, England, xv, 262
Red Army, 217
Red Cross, 152–53
Rede, John, 358–59
Remington Rand company, 229
Reno, Nev., 253, 255
Reuther, Walter, 284
Reviews of Modern Physics, 310
Rhodesia, 375
Rochester, N.Y., 59, 62, 208–9
Rochester, University of, 57–59
Rocky Mountains, 338
Rolland, Romain, 52
Roman Catholic Church, 44, 48, 118
Romania, 18
Rome, Italy, 194, 201
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 21, 65, 267–68, 315
Rope (film), 120
Rose and the Ring, The (Thackeray), 15
Rosenbluth, Marshall, 324
Rotblat, Joseph, 298
Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), 291
Royal Air Force (RAF), 23, 37–38, 48, 51–52, 60, 90, 211, 291, 318, 334
Royal College of Music, xv–xvi, 5, 313
Ruhr Valley, 49–50, 52, 217
Rumpf, Hans, 51
Rusk, Dean, 297
Russell, Bertrand, 12, 251
Russia, xii, xv, 2–3, 10–11, 14, 17–18, 22, 28, 45, 49, 74–77, 145, 196–98, 202, 205–8, 217, 267–68, 278, 285, 346
see also Soviet Union
Rutherford, Ernest, 24
Sagan, Carl, 378
St. Louis, Mo., 83, 88–89
St. Petersburg, Russia, 2, 11, 204
Salam, Abdus, 196–99, 309–10
Salem school, 29–30, 301
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 242, 312, 357–58
Salpeter, Ed, 179
Salt Lake City, Utah, 94
San Diego, Calif., 210, 242, 259–61, 267
San Diego Glider Club, 242, 314
San Francisco, Calif., 88, 94–95, 159, 164, 259, 330, 341
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 86
San Jose State College, 262
Santa Fe, N.Mex., 83–88
Santa Rota, Rome, 261
São Paulo, Brazil, 142, 146
Saturn, 241, 248
Schein, Marcel, 143, 144
Schlesinger, Arthur, 279
Schwarzschild, Martin, 266, 292
Schwinger, Julian, 66–67, 73–74, 80–82, 98–99, 103–4, 117–20, 131, 144, 150, 154, 158, 163–64, 316–17
Scientific American, 209
Scotland, 30, 41
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 210
“Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infra-Red Radiation” (Dyson), 272
Seattle, Wash., 364
Serber, Robert, 154
Sharp, Dover, 335
Shaw, George Bernard, 33
Shelter Island Conference, 153
Shklovsky, Iosip, 265
Sierpinski, Waclaw, 6–7
Sierra Club, 339–40
Simnad, Massoud, 216
Sinding, Arlene, 380
Singapore, xv
Singer, Daniel, 275, 284, 317
Singer, Maxine, 317
Sir George Dyson, His Life and Music (Spicer), 313
Slayton, Deke, 293
Smith, Ian, 375
Smuts, Jan, 268
Snow, Charles Percy, 23, 28–29
Snowdon Mountains, 4
Sociobiology (Wilson), 379
Socrates, 12
Solvay Conferences at Brussels, 101
Solvay Report, 112
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 327
Southeast Asia, 81
Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, 303
Soviet Academy of Sciences, 195
Soviet-American Relations (Kennan), 222
Soviet Union, xii, xv, 3, 50, 53–55, 65, 76, 130, 138, 210, 287, 298, 325, 340
see also Russia
Space Agency, 292–93, 306, 319
Spain, xii, 36, 76, 231
Spencer-Jones, Harold, 218
Spicer, Paul, 313
Spitzer, Lyman, 202
Spong, Paul, 366–70
Sputnik satellites, 243, 244, 249
Stalin, Joseph, xi, 3, 118, 207, 210, 325
Stanford University, 159, 254, 262
Starship and the Canoe, The (Brower), 341, 371
Statue of Liberty, 187
Stevenson, Adlai, 216
Strauss, Lewis, Jr., 213–14
Strauss, Lewis, Sr., 213–14
Strauss, Richard, 42–43
Strömgren, Bengt, 219–20
Stuttgart, Germany, 53, 158
Swanson Island, 365, 370–71
Swinnerton-Dyer, Peter, 20
Switzerland, 92–94, 133, 149, 167, 194, 206, 230, 261–62, 325
Syracuse, N.Y., 169
Syracuse, University of, 170
Syria, 304
Szilard, Leo, 145, 315–16, 320
Szilard, Trude, 315, 320
Tamm, Igor, 197, 200
Tarsus, Turkey, 343
Tatra mountain range, 6
Taylor, Caro, 248, 251
Taylor, Geoffrey, 56, 69–70
Taylor, Ted, 248–50, 253, 295, 359
Teller, Edward, 144–45, 154, 165, 177, 211–15, 245–46, 283, 296–98
Test Ban Treaty, 246, 270, 280, 294, 297, 319
Texas, 70, 85, 233, 302
Thackeray, William M., 15
Thaw, The (Ehrenburg), 207
Thirring, Walter, 320
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 71
Thompson, Homer, 343–44
Thompson, J. J., 79
Thou
sand Days, A (Schlesinger), 279
Thurmond, Strom, 116
Tibet, China, 281
Time, 139, 151
Tinian island, 77
Tito, Marshal, 16
Tokyo, Japan, 80, 351–55
Tolstoy, Lev, xii, 25–26, 54
Tomonaga, Shin’itiro, 80, 163–64, 316–17
Toronto, University of, 149–50
Toynbee, Arnold, 95
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (film), 68
Trenton, N.J., 240, 306–8, 331–32, 380
Trevelyan, George, 37
TRIGA reactor, 267
Trinity College, 1–4, 9, 23, 27, 32, 37, 42, 78, 188
Trondheim, Norway, 82
Trotsky, Leon, 222
Truman, Harry S., 65, 90–91, 116–18, 158, 165
Tukey, John, 152
Turing, Alan, 149
Turkey, 24
Tutte, Bill, 149
Uhlenbeck, George and Else, 153, 165
Ulam, Stanislav, 177, 282–83
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), see Soviet Union
Unitarian Universalist Church, 380
United Automobile Workers (UAW), 284
United Kingdom, xv, 9, 21, 32, 50, 172, 210, 240, 287, 298
United Nations, 55, 138, 287, 309–10
United States, xiii, 2–3, 9, 16, 22, 34, 50, 54–55, 60–61, 74–82, 87, 92, 98, 117, 123, 138, 142, 145, 149–50, 153, 158, 163–65, 168, 172–74, 179–81, 187, 190, 199, 205–7, 210–13, 216–17, 226, 237, 273–75, 280, 289–91, 297–98, 301, 333, 337, 346, 351, 357, 372
Ursell, Fritz, 21, 22
U.S. Highway 66, 83–85
Utah, 94–95
Vancouver, Canada, 341, 364–65, 371, 376–78
Van Gogh, Vincent, 52
Veksler, Vladimir, 197
Ventris, Michael, 191
Venus, 269–70, 345
Versailles Treaty, 217
Vienna, Austria, 12, 179
Vietnam War, 275, 289, 295–96, 334, 341
Virginia, 31
Volga River, 11
Volksmuseum, 52
von Arnim, Elizabeth, 251
von Helmholtz, Hermann, 79
von Liebig, Justus, 81
von Neumann, John, 22, 100–101, 106–8, 145, 154, 180
von Richthofen, Inge, 165
Voting Rights Act, 289
Vyshinsky, Andrey, 55
Wace, Alan, 190, 194
Wadman, Al, 295
Wales, 4, 7–9
Walking the Indian Streets (Mehta), 312
Wallace, Henry, 65, 90, 116
War and Peace (Tolstoy), xii, 25–26, 54
Warburg Institutes, 40
War of 1967, 304–5
Washington, DC, 63, 155, 186, 193, 198–99, 214–15, 232, 246, 270, 275, 279, 282–91, 294–96, 316, 340, 378–80
Washington, George, 372, 382
Waterman, Susanna, 374–75
Watson, James, xiii, 329
Weapons and Hope (Dyson), 287
Weil, André, 134, 166
Weimar Republic, 30
Weisskopf, Viki, 57, 73–74
Wells, H. G., 251
Welsh National Radio, 7
Wergeland, Harald, 82, 91
Wertheim, Germany, 255
Westerhausen, Germany, 362–63
West Germany, 50, 76, 231–32
West Virginia, 271
Weyl, Hermann, 100, 206, 209
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Feynman), 72
Whitehead, Alfred, 12
Wigner, Eugene, 123, 145, 154, 280
Williams, Frederic, 106
Wilson, Charles, 95–96
Wilson, Edward, 378–79
Wilson, Robert, xiii, 56–57, 132
Wilson, Woodrow, 79
Winchester, England, xv–xvi, 27, 313, 343–44, 358, 361
Winchester College, 5, 10, 13, 16, 34–35, 166, 291, 357–59
Winterset (Anderson), 72
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 12
Wool Industries Research Lab, 105
Woolley, Richard, 218
Wordsworth, William, 285–87
World War I, 24, 33, 42, 80, 213, 328–29
World War II, xv, 1, 9, 21, 25, 33, 36, 37, 42, 153
Wu, Chien Shiung, 225, 234, 240
Wuppertal, University of, 162
Wyoming, 94
Xuong, Nguyen Huu, 312
Yang, Chen Ning, 179
Yang, Frank, 225, 232, 239–40, 243, 294, 315, 323
Yeats, William B., 93–94
YMCA, 89, 149, 286
Young, Brigham, 94
Ypsilanti, Mich., 89
Yugoslavia, 15–16, 80, 279
Yukawa, Hideki, 69, 102–3, 158, 243
Zeldovich, Yakov, 197
Zürich, Switzerland, 105, 143, 152, 168–69, 206, 350
Zürich, University of, 152, 162, 174
Zimbabwe, 375
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