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INDEX

Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.),
182

absorber theory,
see
Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics

action,
59–61
,
131–32
,
226
,
229
,
247–48
.
See also
least action, principle of Planck’s constant and,
71

action at a distance,
101–2
,
128

     Aldrich, Arnold,
419–20

algebra,
29–30
,
33–34
,
36
,
183
,
362
,
401

Alice in Wonderland
(Carroll),
124

Alpert, Richard,
406

American Broadcasting Corporation,
378

American Museum of Natural History (New York),
25

American Physical Society,
53

     meetings,
40
,
117
,
252
,
270
,
301
,
354–55
,
411–12

Ampère, Andrè-Marie,
320

analogy,
404

Anderson, Carl,
81
,
253

anthropology,
287
,
290

antigravity,
295
,
407

antimatter,
7
,
122
,
253–54
,
305
,
334
,
407

and time reversal,
82
,
123
,
258
,
272–73

anti-Semitism,
23
,
49
,
53
,
62
,
84–85
,
167
,
233

Archimedes,
315

Aristotle,
359

Armstrong, Neil,
417
,
423

Army, United States,
137
,
182
,
414–15

     Feynman as consultant,
295

     Los Alamos and,
161
,
187
,
192–93
,
198–99

     Oppenheimer and,
158–59

     secrecy and,
166
,
169

Ashkin, Julius,
192

Associated Press,
378

astrology,
373–74

athletics,
327–28

atom,
36–39
,
58–59
,
114
.
See also
hydrogen; uranium

     models of,
5
,
71–72
,
95
,
99
,
241–43

     nucleus,
9
,
79–80
,
89–90
,
130
,
264
,
307
,
392

atomic bomb.
See also
Los Alamos

     Bethe-Feynman formula,
6
,
168