Genius (91 page)

Read Genius Online

Authors: James Gleick

BOOK: Genius
3.68Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

Boden, Margaret A. 1990.
The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms
. New York: Basic Books.

Bohm, David, and Peat, F. David. 1987.
Science, Order, and Creativity
. New York: Bantam.

Bohr, Niels. 1922. Nobel Prize in Physics Award Address, 11 December. In Weaver 1987, 2:315.

——. 1928. “New Problems in Quantum Theory: The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory.”
Nature
121:580.

——. 1935. “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”
Physical Review
48:696.

Bohr, Niels, and Wheeler, John Archibald. 1939. “The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission.”
Physical Review
56:426.

Boltzman, Ludwig. 1974.
Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems
. Edited by Brian McGuinness. Boston: Reidel.

Bondi, Hermann. 1967.
Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bonner, Francis T., and Phillips, Melba. 1957.
Principles of Physical Science
. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Born, Max. 1971.
The Born-Einstein Letters: Correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916 to 1955
. Translated by Irene Born. New York: Walker.

Bosanquet, Bernard. 1923.
Three Chapters on the Nature of Mind
. London: Macmillan.

Boscovitch, Roger G. 1922.
A Theory of Natural Philosophy
. Translated by J. M. Child. Chicago: Open Court.

Boslough, John. 1986. “Inside the Mind of John Wheeler.”
Reader’s Digest
, September, 106.

Bowerman, Walter G. 1947.
Studies in Genius
. New York: Philosophical Library.

Boyd, Richard; Gasper, Philip; and Trout, J. D., eds. 1991.
The Philosophy of Science
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Boyer, Paul. 1985.
By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
. New York: Pantheon.

Bridgman, Percy. 1950.
Reflections of a Physicist
. New York: Philosophical Library.

——. 1952.
The Nature of Some of Our Physical Concepts
. New York: Philosophical Library.

——. 1961.
The Logic of Modern Physics
. New York: Macmillan.

Briggs, John. 1988.
Fire in the Crucible: The Alchemy of Creative Genius
. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

Brillouin, Leon. 1964.
Scientific Uncertainty and Information
. New York: Academic Press.

Brode, Bemice. 1960. “Tales of Los Alamos.”
LASL Community News
, 11 August.

Broglie, Louis de. 1951. “The Concept of Time in Modern Physics and Bergson’s Pure Duration.” In
Bergson and the Evolution of Physics
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Bromberg, Joan. 1976. “The Concept of Particle Creation before and after Quantum Mechanics.”
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
7:161.

Brower, Kenneth. 1978.
The Starship and the Canoe
. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Brown, Laurie M.; Dresden, Max; and Hoddeson, Lillian, eds. 1989.
Pions to Quarks: Particle Physics in the 1950s
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, Laurie M., and Hoddeson, Lillian, eds. 1983.
The Birth of Particle Physics
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Brown, Lawrason. 1934.
Rules for Recovery from Pulmonary Tuberculosis
. Philadelphia: Lea and Feberger.

Brownell, G. L. 1952. “Physics in South America.”
Physics Today
, July, 5.

Bunge, Mario. 1979.
Causality and Modern Science
. New York: Dover.

Cahn, Robert N., and Goldhaber, Gerson. 1989.
The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Casimir, Hendrik B. G. 1983.
Haphazard Reality: Half a Century of Science
. New York: Harper and Row.

Chamber of Commerce of the Rockaways. 1934.
Annual Year Book of the Rockaways
.

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan. 1987.
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Chase, W. Parker. 1932.
New York: The Wonder City
. Facsimile edition. New York: New York Bound, 1983.

Chown, Marcus. 1989. “The Heart and Soul of Richard Feynman.”
New Scientist
, 25 February, 65.

Churchland, Paul M, and Hooker, Clifford A.
Images of Science
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Clark, Ronald W. 1971.
Einstein: The Life and Times
. New York: World.

Close, F. E. 1979.
An Introduction to Quarks and Partons
. London: Academic Press.

Cohen, I. Bernard, ed. 1981.
The Conservation of Energy and the Principle of Least Action.
New York: Arno Press.

Cohen, I. Bernard. 1985.
Revolution in Science
. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.

Cohen, Michael. 1991. “It Never Passed
Him
By.” Typescript.

Cohn, David L. 1943.
Love in America
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Colodny, Robert G. 1965.
Beyond the Edge of Certainty: Essays in Contemporary Science and Philosophy
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Compton, Arthur. 1956.
Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cooper, Necia Grant. 1989.
From Cardinals to Chaos: Reflections of the Life and Legacy of Stanislaw Ulam
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Corey, C. L. 1988.
Diary of a Safeman
. Facsimile edition. Streamwood, III.: National Publishing.

Crease, Robert P., and Mann, Charles C. 1986.
The Second Creation
. New York: Macmillan.

Crick, Francis H. C. 1962. “The Genetic Code.”
Scientific American
, October, 66.

——. 1966. “The Genetic Code: III.”
Scientific American
, October, 55.

Crick, Francis H. C; Barnett, Leslie; Brenner, Sydney; and Watts-Tobin, R. J. 1961. “General Nature of the Genetic Code for Proteins.”
Nature
192:1227.

Currie, Robert. 1974.
Genius: An Ideology in Literature
. New York: Schocken.

Curtin , Deane W. 1980.
The Aesthetic Dimension of Science
. New York: Philosophical Library.

Curtin, Deane W., ed. 1982.
The Aesthetic Dimension of Science: 1980 Nobel Conference
. New York: Philosophical Library.

Cvitanović, Predrag. 1983.
Field Theory
. Copenhagen: Nordita Classics Illustrated.

Dalai, Siddhartha R.; Fowlkes, Edward B.; and Hoadley, Bruce. 1989. “Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-
Challenger
Prediction of Failure.”
Journal of the American Statistical Association
84:945.

Davies, John D. 1973. “The Curious History of Physics at Princeton.”
Princeton Alumni Weekly
, 2 October, 8.

Davies, P. C. W. 1974.
The Physics of Time Asymmetry
. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Davis, Nuel Pharr. 1968.
Lawrence and Oppenheimer
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

De Hoffmann, Frederic. 1974. “A Novel Apprenticeship.” In J. Wilson 1975, 162.

De Sitter, Willem. 1932.
Kosmos
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Dedmon, Emmett. 1953.
Fabulous Chicago
. New York: Random House.

Dembart, Lee. 1983. “Nobel Prize: Another Side of the Medal.”
Los Angeles Times
, 4 February, 20.

Descartes, René. 1955.
The Philosophical Works of Descartes
. Translated by E. S. Haldane and G. R. T. Ross. New York: Dover.

D‘Espagnat, Bernard. 1976.
Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

——. 1979. “The Quantum Theory and Reality.”
Scientific American,
November, 158.

Dirac, P. A. M. 1928. “The Quantum Theory of the Electron.”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
A117:610.

——. 1933. “The Lagrangian in Quantum Mechanics.”
Physikalische Zeitschrift der Sowjetunion
2:64. In Schwinger 1958.

——. 1935.
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
. Second edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

——. 1946. “Elementary Particles and Their Interactions.” Typescript. PUL.

——. 1971.
The Development of Quantum Theory
. J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize Acceptance Speech. New York: Gordon and Breach.

——. 1975.
Directions in Physics
. New York: Wiley and Sons.

Dobkowski, Michael N. 1979.
The Tarnished Dream: Basis of American Anti-Semitism
. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Dodd, J. E. 1984.
The Ideas of Particle Physics
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Donnelly, Russell. 1991a.
Quantized Vortices in Helium II
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

——. 199l
b
. “The Discovery of Superfluidity.” Manuscript.

Dresden, Max. 1987.
H. A. Kramers: Between Tradition and Revolution
. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Duff, William. 1767.
An Essay on Original Genius
. A facsimile reproduction edited with an introduction by John L. Mohoney. Gainesville, Pa.: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1964.

Duga, René. 1955.
A History of Mechanics
. Translated by J. R. Maddox. Neuchatel: Griffon.

Dye, Lee. 1988. “Nobel Physicist R. P. Feynman of Caltech Dies.” Los
Angeles Times
, 16 February, 1.

Dyson, Freeman. 1944. “Some Guesses in the Theory of Partitions.”
Eureka
8:10.

——. 1949
a
. “The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman.”
Physical Review
75:486. In Schwinger 1958.

——. 1949
b
. “The S-Matrix in Quantum Electrodynamics.”
Physical Review
75:1736. In Schwinger 1958.

——. 1952. “Divergence of Perturbation Theory in Quantum Electrodynamics.”
Physical Review
85:631.

——. 1965
a
. “Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics.”
Science
150:588. In Weaver 1987, 1:427.

——. 1965
b
. “Old and New Fashions in Field Theory.”
Physics Today
, June, 23.

——. 1979.
Disturbing the Universe
. New York: Basic Books.

——. 1980. “Manchester and Athens.” In Curtin 1980, 41.

——. 1984.
Weapons and Hope
. New York: Harper and Row.

——. 1987. “A Walk through Ramanujan’s Garden.” Lecture at the Ramanujan Centenary Conference, University of Illinois, 2 June.

——. 1988
a
.
Infinite in All Directions
. New York: Harper and Row.

——. 1988
b
. “The Lemon and the Cream.” Talk prepared for Gemant Award ceremonies, 25 October. Institute for Advanced Study.

——. 1989. “Feynman at Cornell.”
Physics Today
, February, 32.

——. 1990. “Feynman’s Proof of the Maxwell Equations.”
American Journal of Physics
58:209.

——. 1992. From Eros to Gaia. New Yoik: Pantheon.

Earman, John. 1989.
World Enough and Space-Time
. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Eddington, A. S. 1940.
The Nature of the Physical World
. New York: Macmillan.

Edson, Lee. 1967. “Two Men in Search of the Quark.”
New York Times Magazine
, 8 October, 54.

Einstein, Albert. 1909. “Development of Our Conception of the Nature and Constitution of Radiation.”
Physikalishe Zeitschrift
22:1909. In Weaver 1987, 2:295.

Einstein, Albert, and Infeld, Leopold. 1938.
The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
. New York: Dover.

Erwin, G. S. 1946.
A Guide for the Tuberculous Patient
. New York: Gruneand Stratton.

Far Rockaway High School. 1932.
History of the Rockaways
. Monograph by the students of Far Rockaway High School. Brooklyn Historical Society.

Feinberg, Gerald. 1977.
What Is the World Made Of? The Achievements of Twentieth Century Physics
. Garden City, N.Y: Anchor Press.

Fermi, Enrico. 1932. “Quantum Theory of Radiation.”
Reviews of Modern Physics
4:87.

Fermi, Enrico, and Yang. C. N. 1949. “Are Mesons Elementary Particles?”
Physical Review
76:1739.

Fermi, Laura. 1954.
Atoms in the Family: My Life with Enrico Fermi
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

——. 1971.
Illustrious Immigrants: The Intellectual Migration from Europe 1930–41
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

——. 1980. “The Fermis’ Path to Los Alamos.” In Badash et al. 1980.

Ferretti, B., ed. 1958.
Annual International Conference on High Energy Physics at CERN
. Geneva, 30 June–5 July. Geneva: CERN.

Ferris, Timothy. 1988.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
. New York: Morrow.

Fine, Arthur. 1986.
The Shaky Game: Einstein, Realism, and the Quantum Theory
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

——. 1991. “The Natural Ontological Attitude.” In Boyd et al. 1991, 271.

Flick, Lawrence F 1903.
Consumption a Curable and Preventable Disease
. Philadelphia: McKay.

Foley, H. M., and Kusch, P. 1948. “On the Intrinsic Moment of the Electron.”
Physical Review
73:412.

Other books

A Rhinestone Button by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
The Kadin by Bertrice Small
The Azure Wizard by Nicholas Trandahl
Pole Position by Sofia Grey
Criminal Intent (MIRA) by Laurie Breton
Forbidden Drink by Nicola Claire
The Stardroppers by John Brunner
Rock Hard by LJ Vickery
And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'engle