Genius (97 page)

     -neutron interaction,
270–71

     -photon interaction,
241–42
,
246

     -positron interaction,
253–54

     -proton interaction,
391–95

     in beta decay,
335–37

     magnetic moment,
251–52

     reality of,
375

     self-energy,
99–102
,
109–12
,
239–40
,
251–52
,
256
,
273–75
,
380

     in solids,
88–90
,
349

     spin,
229–31
,
239

     two-slit experiment,
247–48
,
250
,
366

electron microscope,
38
,
355

electroweak theory,
431

Encyclopaedia Britannica
,
25
,
38
,
49
,
286
,
354–55

energy,
31
,
38–39

     conservation of,
60
,
88
,
139
,
330
,
360–61

     force vs.,
87–89
,
226

     gravity waves and,
352

     infinite,
49
,
99
,
253

     kinetic and potential,
60–61
,
121

     mass and,
4
,
42

     negative,
122
,
253

     quantum mechanics and,
71–72
,
74
,
127

     textbooks and,
398

Engineering and Science
,
355–56

ENIAC,
182

entropy,
355
,
362–63
,
435

Erhard, Werner,
405–6

Esalen Institute,
407

est Foundation,
405

ether,
18
,
42
,
48
,
101

Ethical Culture School (New York),
24
,
159

Euclid,
34
,
41
,
121

evolution,
31–32
,
208
,
332

exclusion principle,
6–7
,
255
,
258

explanation,
357
,
364–75

Explorer satellites,
415–16

Far Rockaway (New York),
20–24
,
45–49
,
64
,
98
,
126
,
191
,
409

     Temple Israel,
219
,
296

Far Rockaway High School,
30–36
,
60–61
,
302

     Young People’s Socialist League,
296

Faraday, Michael,
101

Faulkner, William,
380

Faust
(Goethe),
52
,
66
,
208
,
236

Federal Bureau of Investigation,
296–97

Fermat, Pierre de,
57–58
,
61
,
250

Fermat’s last theorem,
267

Fermi, Enrico,
305
,
309

     calculating ability,
175

     death,
294

     Feynman and,
282–83

     as genius,
322

     “lightness of approach,”
166–67

     nuclear reactor,
146
,
157
,
161

     nuclear research,
79
,
95
,
173

     at Pocono,
5
,
255–57

     Schwinger and,
216

     at Trinity,
155
,
203

Fermi-Dirac statistics,
399

Fermi interaction,
see
weak interaction

Feynman, Anne (paternal grandmother),
24

Feynman, Arline Greenbaum (first wife),
45–46
,
64–65
,
67
,
69
,
91
,
116–17
,
146
,
184–88
,
206
,
212–14
,
221–22
,
264
,
287
,
289
,
290
,
343
,
409–10

     illness,
117
,
126–27
,
134–35
,
149–51
,
159–60
,
170
,
191–96
,
200–202

     marriage,
149–51

Feynman, Carl (son),
346
,
378
,
396–98
,
405
,
409
,
435

Feynman, Gweneth Howarth (third wife),
340–47
,
353
,
378
,
401–2
,
405
,
408
,
426
,
438

Feynman, Henry Phillips (brother),
25–26
,
46
,
221

Feynman, Joan (sister),
16
,
19
,
26–27
,
30
,
40–42
,
46
,
64
,
135
,
194–95
,
202
,
220–21
,
335–36
,
438

Feynman, Louis (paternal grandfather),
24

Feynman, Lucille (née Phillips, mother),
15
,
19
,
23
,
24–26
,
27–28
,
32
,
40–42
,
46
,
115
,
149–51
,
156
,
159
,
169
,
182–83
,
201
,
213–14
,
220–21
,
263
,
293
,
346
,
378–79
,
397

Feynman, Mary Louise (second wife),
see
Bell,

Mary Louise

Feynman, Melville (father),
22
,
24–26
,
27–31
,
40–42
,
46
,
68
,
91
,
126
,
133
,
149–51
,
169
,
176
,
186
,
214
,
219–22
,
242
,
379
,
388
,
410

Feynman, Michelle (daughter),
346
,
396–98
,
401
,
408
,
437

Feynman, Richard Phillips

     “aggressive dopiness,”
405

     ambition,
34
,
170
,
265–66

     atomic bomb and,
3
,
6
,
11
,
15
,
140
,
153–205
,
213
,
216
,
218
,
224–25
,
263–64
,
417

     awards,
295–96
,
343
,
375–86

     beaches and,
21–22
,
283–87
,
339
,
401

     beauty and,
13
,
373
,
435

     birth,
25

     books,
11–13

The Character of Physical Law
,
13
,
364–71

The Feynman Lectures on Physics
,
12
,
21–22
,
37–38
,
145
,
357–64
,
407
,
435–36

Photon-Hadron Interactions
,
395

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
,
13

Quantum Electrodynamics
,
12

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
,
11
,
409–11

Theory of Fundamental Processes
,
12

What Do You Care What Other People Think?
,
11

     calculating ability,
9–10
,
14–15
,
33–36
,
60
,
175–78

     California Institute of Technology and,
277–78
,
282–83
,
293–94
,
311
,
338
,
340–41
,
349
,
398
,
404
,
406–7
,
435
,
437

Challenger
and,
11
,
145
,
415–28

     childhood,
17–49

     children,
346
,
378
,
396–98
,
401
,
405
,
408–9
,
435
,
437

     college admission,
49

     consulting,
223
,
295
,
406
,
434

     at Cornell,
3
,
10
,
204
,
214–22
,
225–27
,
277–78
,
286
,
288
,
293–94
,
365

     culture and,
14
,
32
,
65
,
83
,
185
,
285–87
,
292

     diagrams and,
7–8
,
11
,
17
,
104
,
130–31

     divorce,
293

     draft status,
222–25
,
297

     dreams,
69–70

     drugs and,
14
,
406

     education,
30–36
,
55–56
,
60–61

     as educator,
12
,
98
,
216–18
,
262
,
278–79
,
357–60
,
397–401