Genius (96 page)

     risk assessment,
427–28

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan,
316

chaos,
119
,
182
,
360
,
430–31
,
435–36

Character of Physical Law
,
13
,
364–71

Chaucer,
235

chemistry,
38–39
,
67
,
79
,
86–90
,
99
,
264

quantum,
40
,
87

Chicago, University of,
10
,
41
,
141
,
146
,
157–58
,
161
,
164
,
282
,
309
,
386

     honorary degree offer,
384

     recruiting of Feynman,
294

Christian Century
,
207

Citizen Kane
(Welles),
236

City College of New York,
48
,
215

clouds,
22
,
80–81
,
154

Cobb, Ty,
327

Cohn, David L.,
192
n

Coleman, Sidney,
10
n,
323–24
,
389
,
405

color (light),
130
,
131
,
321
,
357
,
362

color (particle property),
229
,
387
,
390
,
402–3
,
432

Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School (New York),
307
,
309

Columbia University,
49
,
144
,
180
,
252
,
267
,
309
,
334
,
337
,
384

Rabi at,
53
,
91
,
232
,
234

Schwinger at,
215–16

Commerce, Department of, United States,
296

complementarity,
40
,
54

Compton, Karl,
55
,
94
,
138

computing,
6
,
175–82
,
329
,
348
,
354–55
,
435

     analog,
137

     ENIAC,
182

Condon, Edward,
54–55

consciousness,
68–69
,
123–24
,
243
,
321
,
431

continental drift,
321

Cook, Richard,
423–24

Coolidge, Albert Sprague,
85

Cooper, Leon,
303

Copyright Office, United States,
328

Coriolis force,
37

Cornell University,
3
,
53
,
123

     Bethe at,
53
,
80
,
166
,
225–27
,
238
,
277

     Dyson at,
7
,
238–39

     Feynman at,
10
,
204
,
214–22
,
225–27
,
263
,
277–78
,
286
,
288
,
293–94
,
365

     postwar growth,
210–12
,
221

     women at,
212

cosmic rays,
81–82
,
98
,
114
,
168
,
215
,
253
,
304
,
332

cosmology,
112–14
,
123–26
,
293
,
353–54

Crease, Robert,
433–34
n

Crick, Francis,
349
,
351
,
382

current algebra,
328
,
338
,
393

Cutler, Monarch,
82–83

Cvitanović, Predrag,
279–80
n

cyclotron,
95–96
,
107–8
,
136
,
160
,
210–11
,
305–6

Daghlian, Harry,
196

Darwin, Charles,
207

Dawes, Rufus C,
41

Day, Edmund Ezra,
210

Delbrück, Max,
293
,
340
,
349

Depression,
41
,
46
,
53
,
55
,
77
,
281
,
308

Descartes, René,
58–59
,
67–68

diffusion,
79
,
80
,
171–75
,
182
,
249

     and entropy,
119

     in uranium separation,
139–40
,
144

DiMaggio, Joe,
328

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

     antimatter,
122
,
253

     at Cambridge,
53–54
,
166
,
236

     Feynman and,
7
,
184
,
226
,
228–29
,
437

     as genius,
43–44
,
322

     history of quantum mechanics,
72–73

     Lagrangian in quantum mechanics,
128–29
,
131–32
,
226

     parity and,
334

     at Pocono,
5
,
7
,
255–58

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
,
56
,
76
,
99–100
,
260

     religion and,
58

     renormalization and,
347–49

     Schwinger and,
48–49

     Slater and,
53–54

Dirac equation,
5
,
73
,
229–30
,
234
,
261–62
,
336–38

     discovery,
284
,
313–14
,
321

     individual vs. multiple,
329

     myths of,
279
,
315
,
380

DNA,
14
,
293
,
349–351
,
355
,
386

Dr. Strangelove
(Kubrick),
156

Don Juan,
319

Double Helix, The
(Watson),
386

DuBridge, Lee,
295
,
415

Duff, William,
313

Dyson, Freeman J.,
298

     background,
235–38

     at Cornell,
235
,
238

     Feynman and,
3–4
,
7
,
240–41
,
244
,
249–51
,
262–66
,
273
,
323
,
368
,
424

     genius and,
317
,
320–21
,
323
,
328

     Nobel Prize,
377–78

     Oppenheimer and,
269–70

     quantum electrodynamics,
239–40
,
252
,
259
,
263
,
266–72
,
274
,
279–80
,
307
,
309
,
348
,
367

     Schwinger and,
261
,
266–68
,
271

Dyson, George,
235
,
267

Dyson, Mildred,
235–36

Dyson graph,
269
,
273

earthquake science,
281–82

Eastman, George,
55

Eddington, Arthur,
52
,
75
,
109
,
433

Edgerton, Harold,
77

Edison, Thomas Alva,
40–44
,
54–55
,
319–20
,
329

Einstein, Albert,
5
,
9–10
,
45
,
54
,
56
,
70
,
112
,
120
,
123
,
129
,
209
,
244
,
264
,
281
,
324
,
386
,
433–34

     atomic bomb,
136

     Bohr and,
40

     brain,
311–12

     ether,
18
,
101–2

     Feynman and,
98
,
115
,
117
,
118–19
,
257

     legend,
41–44
,
311–13
,
320–22
,
326

     Nobel Prize,
375–77

     photoelectric effect,
71
,
377

     on Princeton,
97

     on quantum mechanics,
40
,
45
,
215
,
243
,
347

     relativity,
42–43
,
71
,
72
,
255
,
329
,
351–52
,
365
,
368
,
375
,
429–30

     religion and,
58
,
372

     retirement,
118–19

     Einstein Award,
295–96
,
343
,
378–79

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
296
,
297
,
340

electric light,
319
,
329

electricity,
320

electron,
4
,
5
,
33
,
71–73
,
79
,
86
,
114
,
122–23
,
127
,
231–32
,
283
,
306

     -electron interaction,
48–49
,
273