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“German,”
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heuristic approach to,
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historical development of,
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inductive method for,
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“Jewish,”
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–89,
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laws of,
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particle,
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popular understanding of,
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scientific realism in,
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theoretical,
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unified conception of,
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see also
quantum mechanics; relativity; unified field theory

“Physics and Reality” (Einstein),
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–63

Picasso, Pablo,
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280

Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette,
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Pity of It All, The
(Elon),
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Planck, Max,
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–100,
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Planck medal,
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Planck’s constant
(h),
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planetary orbits,
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Plesch, Janos,
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Podolsky, Boris,
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Poincaré, Henri,
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Poland,
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polonium,
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Ponsonby, Arthur,
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Poor, Charles,
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Popovi
, Milan,
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positivism,
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Postal and Telegraph Building (Bern),
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postulates,
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potential energy,
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Prague, University of,
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“Present State of the Problem of

Specific Heats, The” (Einstein),
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Princeton Country Day School,
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Princeton Hospital,
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Princeton University,
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Principe Island,
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Principia
(Newton),
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Principles of Human Knowledge
(Berkeley),
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privatdozent
appointments,
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–53

probability,
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Prolegomena
(Kant),
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Proust, Marcel,
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Prussian Academy of Sciences,
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psi-functions,
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–58

Ptolemy,
518

Pueblo
(Colorado)
Star-Journal,
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Pugwash Conferences,
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Pythagoras,
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Pythagorean theorem,
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quantum mechanics,
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–70

“action at a distance” in,
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Bohr’s contributions to,
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causality in,
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complementarity in,
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Copenhagen interpretation of,
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decoherent histories in,
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Einstein’s contributions to,
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Einstein’s criticism of,
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entanglement in,
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“EPR paper” on,
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experimental support for,
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fixed states in,
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gravitation in,
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“gunpowder experiment” for,
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incompleteness of,
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locality principle in,
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mass in,
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momentum and position in,
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Newton’s laws and,
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observation in,
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physical reality in,
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probability in,
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psi-functions in,
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relativity compared with,
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Schrödinger equation for,
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“Schrödinger’s cat” and,
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scientific collaboration on,
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separability in,
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Solvay conference debates on,
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spacetime continuum in,
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“spooky action at a distance” in,
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statistical calculations for,
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–48,
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of subatomic particles,
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–24,
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–60,
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sum-over-histories approach to,
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