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Addison-Wesley Company, 318
Adrian, Edgar, 72
Advanced Calculus (Woods), 86
Arabian Nights, 172, 173
Aristophanes, 307
Baade, Walter, 234
Bacher, Robert, 105, 132, 220, 233, 254
Bader (physics teacher), 86
Bausch and Lomb Company, 53
Be Here Now (Ram Das), 332
Bell, Alexander Graham, 18
Bell Labs, 53, 99–100
Bernays, Peter, 39–40, 130
Bethe, Hans, 112, 113, 132, 156, 162, 166, 174, 193–94
Block, Martin, 247–48
Boehm, Felix, 250, 252
Bohr, Aage (Jim Baker), 132–33
Bohr, Niels (Nicholas Baker), 132–33
Brazilian Academy of Sciences, 203
Bronk, Detlev, 72
Bullock’s, 268
Byers, Nina, 313–14, 315, 316
Cabibbo, Nicola, 253
Calculus for the Practical Man, 86
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 72, 95, 105, 211, 233–36, 250, 262, 275, 316, 323
California State Board of Education, 290–302
Calvin, Professor, 232
Case, Ken, 249
Center for Physical Research, Rio de Janeiro, 200–202, 211–19, 312
CERN, 311
Christy, Robert, 112, 121, 128–29, 143, 252, 253
Compton, Arthur Holly, 108–9
Cornell University, 62–63, 136, 166–74, 175, 199, 232–33, 234, 235, 313n, 344
Crick, Francis H. C., 72
Curie, Marie, 276
de Hoffman, Frederic, 57–58, 147–52
Delbrück, Max, 72
Del Sasso, Professor, 65
Demitriades, Steve, 266
Dresden Codex, 314, 316, 317
Dreyfuss, Henry, 276
Edgar, Robert, 73. 75
Einstein, Albert, 37, 79, 80, 100, 172, 279, 280
Eisenhart, Dean, 60, 66–67
Eisenhart, Mrs., 60–61
Electrical Testing Labs, 53
Erhard, Werner, 328
Esalen, 338–39
Faust (Goethe), 46
Feller, Professor, 232
Fermi, Enrico, 132, 236
Feynman, Arlene, 104–5, 110, 113, 115–18, 129–31
Feynman, Gweneth, 270, 272, 312
Feynman, Lucille, 162
Feynman, Mary Lou, 205, 236, 244, 314
Feynman, Mel, 88–90, 162, 314
Feynman Lectures, 318
Frankel, Stanley, 125–27
Frankfort Arsenal, Philadelphia. Pa., 100–103
Frogs, The (Aristophanes), 307
Fuchs, Klaus, 129
Geller, Uri, 339
Gell-Mann, Murray, 225, 248, 250, 253–54, 317
General Atomics, 57
General Electric Company,’ 156
Gianonni (restaurant owner), 271, 272, 273–75
Gibbs, Professor, 168, 169
Griffin, Dr., 232
Guys and Dolls, 323–25
Harvard University, 75, 76, 332
Harvey, E. Newton, 71
Harvey, Thomas, 290
Heisenberg, Werner, 279
Hughes Aircraft Company, 330
Huxley, Thomas, 45
Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, 165, 172–73
Institute of Parapsychology, 346
International Correspondence Schools, 262
Irwin, Robert, 277
Jefferson, Thomas, 279
Jensen, Hans, 250, 252
Jewish Theological Seminary, 284
Kac, Professor, 232
Kellogg Laboratory, 211
Kemeny, John, 119
Kerst, Donald, 151–52
Kislinger, Mark, 255
Lamfrom, Hildegarde, 74–75
Lattes, Cesar, 201–2
Laurence, William, 135
Lavatelli, Leo, 137
Lee (physicist), 248, 249
Leighton, Ralph, 322–23, 324, 325–29
Leighton, Robert, 322
Life of Leonardo, The, 27
Lilly, John, 330–32, 335, 337
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 160
Lollobrigida, Gina, 312
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 276
Madrix codex, 317
Manhattan Project, 57, 107–36, 138–39, 142–55, 166
Marcuso (taxi driver), 175–76
Marshall, Leona, 236
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 21, 30, 45, 53, 59, 61–62, 63
Meselson, Matthew, 74, 234
Messenger Lectures, 313n
Metaplast Corporation, 58
Meyer, Maurice, 32, 99
Mill, John Stuart, 45
Millikan, Robert, 342
Munger, Professor, 328
My Later Years (Einstein), 280
National Accelerator Laboratory, 344
Neugebauer, Otto, 313–14
Neumann, John von, 78–79, 132
New York Times, 316–17
Nick the Greek, 231
Nishina (physicist), 237
Nobel Prize, 174, 303–12
Norris (lawyer), 290, 291, 300–301
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Laboratory, 120–25, 144–46
Ofey (Richard Feynman), 268
Olum, Paul, 86, 110, 111, 195
“On a Piece of Chalk” (Huxley), 45
On Freedom (Jefferson), 279
Onsager, Lars, 242–43
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 108, 110, 121, 122, 128, 248, 313n
Pais, Abraham, 242, 243
Pamilio, Pete, 301
Pasadena Art Museum, 262–63
Pauli, Wolfgang, 79, 80
Pauling, Linus, 225
Phi Beta Delta, 30–33
Physical Review, 111, 254
Polytechnic School, 322
Princeton University, 37, 59–62, 63, 66, 69, 77, 81, 84, 89, 93, 99, 100, 108, 165, 172–73, 192
Process and Reality (Whitehead), 69–70
Rabi, I. I., 108
Ram Das, 332
Ramsey, Norman, 248
Ravndal, Finn, 255
Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943–1945 (Badash, et al.), 107n
Rhine, Joseph, 346
Robertson, Mrs. H. P., 316
Robinson, Professor, 46–49
Rochester Conference, 249
Rogers, Carl, 262
Rowan, Robert, 316
Russell, Henry Norris, 78
Rutishauser, Tom, 322–23
Sanos, Matt, 305
Schrödinger, Erwin, 251, 279, 280
Segrè, Emil, 120–21
Serber, Robert, 112
Shockley, Bill, 53, 99
Sholokhov, Mikhail, 309
Sigma Alpha Mu, 30
Slater, Professor, 59, 63, 163
Smith (patent officer), 181–83
Smith, J. D., 74
Smyth, H. D., 108, 135
Spellbound, 156–57
Sputnik, 292
Staley (Los Alamos scientist), 141–42
State University of North Carolina, 258
Talmud, 284–85
Telegdi, Valentine, 253–54
Teller, Edward, 119–20, 160
Thompson, Eric, 315, 316n
Three Quarks, The, 323
Time magazine, 225, 243, 305–6
Tiomno, Jaime, 199–200
Tolman, Richard, 108–9
Tomonaga, Sinitiro, 237
Trichel, General, 100
Trowbridge (schoolmaster), 322
Tuchman, Maurice, 277–78
Ukonu, 321, 322
University of Alaska, 304
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 313
University of Chicago, 236
University of Rio, 204
Urey, Harold, 108
Villacorta, 314, 316
Wapstra, Aaldert, 250, 252
Watson, James Dewey, 72, 75–76
Weisskopl, Victor, 311
What Is Life (Schrödinger), 280
Wheeler, John. 64, 77–80, 237, 238
Whitehouse, Mrs., 291–92
Wigner. Eugene, 78–79
Wildt, Professor, 60
Williams. John, 111
Wilson, Robert, 107, 109, 110, 135–36, 173, 313n
Woodward, Bill. 89
Wright, Dudley, 268, 273
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 237
Wu, Chien-Shiung, 248, 230
Yang (physicist), 249
Young (psychologist), 345–46
Yukawa, Hideki, 237
Yukawa Institute, 245
Zorthian, Dabney, 269
Zorthian, Jirayr, 260–63, 265, 266, 268–69, 275, 306
Zumwalt, Lieutenant, 123, 124, 125