Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (145 page)

Burchett, Wilfred 463

Burden, William 577

Burgess, Guy 300, 390

Bush, Lieutenant H. C. 427

Bush, Vannevar:

heads NDRC 293

appoints reviewing committee 295

and MAUD findings 295, 301, 306

meets Oliphant 299

recommends centrifuge plant to Roosevelt 311

and S-1 report 322

recommends Parsons for Los Alamos 354

meeting with RO 458, 459

and May–Johnson Bill 474

on Acheson’s committee 479

unconcerned about FBI file on RO 499

publishes ‘Trends in American Science’ 516

on Disarmament Panel 581–2

tells Strauss of RO’s clearance suspension 604

at RO’s hearing 614

Byrnes, James, Secretary of State 433, 442, 449, 455–6, 459, 479, 482, 483, 488

Cairncross, John 300, 390

Caltech (California Institute of Technology) 132, 143, 145–9, 166, 171, 172, 174, 180, 182, 191, 197, 204, 206, 225, 236, 245, 258, 264, 281, 461, 478, 495, 516, 564, 565

‘Calutrons’ 267, 312, 316, 324, 406, 414

Calvert, Captain 387

Cambridge University:

Christ’s 81, 83, 85, 89, 91–2

King’s 91–2

St John’s 91, 92, 101, 108, 129, 143

Kapitza Club 100–1, 102, 103, 105, 114, 116, 121

²
V Club (‘Del Squared V Club’) 102, 106

see also
Cavendish Laboratory

‘Cambridge Five’ 300, 308, 390

Cambridge Philosophical Society 112

Proceedings
112, 114, 291, 491

Camp Koenig, Lake Ontario 35, 37

Campbell, 623

Cario, Dr 124, 129

Carlson, J. Franklin (Frank) 175, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 186, 203, 204, 228–9

death and RO’s memorial lecture 635–7

Carnegie Institution, Washington 207

Caron, Robert 445

Carstairs, Morris 656

Case, Kenneth 528, 658

Cassidy, David C.
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
xi, 175, 230

Cather, Willa 67, 68–9

Death Comes for the Archbishop
68

A Lost Lady
69–70

‘Scandal’ 67–8

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 94, 99, 100, 187, 189, 192, 194–5, 219, 293

Cayley, Arthur 106

Chadwick, James 203

discovers neutrons 99, 184–5

at Royal Society meeting 189, 190

sceptical about Lawrence’s results 207

wins Nobel Prize (1935) 196

and possibility of atomic bomb 293

disgusted by US scientists’ lack of secrecy 305, 458–9

urges Bohr to leave Denmark for England 394–5, 397, 399

joins Manhattan Project 391, 406

and Rotblat 402, 403

chain reactions 190, 261–2

first 331

Chambers, Whittaker 524

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan 247

Chaplin, Charles 197

Chaves, Amado 49–50, 71

Chaves, Kate Nichols (
née
Foster) 50

Chaves, Manuel 49

Cherniss, Harold F. 169, 199, 525

Cherwell, Lord (Frederick Lindemann) 294, 401, 418

Chevalier, Barbara 238, 239–40, 281–2, 335

Chevalier, Haakon 238

meets RO 238

joins CP unit with him 239–40, 270

and Schneiderman 280, 281

and FBI surveillance 280, 301

invited to Pasadena by Oppenheimers 281–2

under suspicion 310, 362

approached by Eltenton 334, 335–6, 357

farewell dinner with RO 336

and RO’s statements 367, 376, 382–3, 384

sends ‘SOS call’ to RO 385

continues to be under FBI surveillance 386

writes to RO after Hiroshima 452, 460

visits Oppenheimers 486

interviewed by FBI 486–7, 493–4

visited in Paris by RO 601

and RO’s hearing 611–12, 613, 614, 615, 620

and Nichols’ letter 622–3, 625

asks RO for explanation 625–9

his
The Man Who Would Be God
flops 645–6

warns RO he is going to write the true story (
Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship
) 662–3

on RO 109–10, 269–70, 272, 325, 494, 505–6

Chicago, University 126, 230, 301, 309

‘Met Lab’ 309, 314, 317, 319, 324, 326, 331, 349, 354, 356, 358, 410, 432, 435–6, 473

Christian Century
,
The
(magazine) 650–61

Christy, Robert 259, 264, 289, 290, 419, 658

Church, Peggy Pond 338

Churchill, Winston 282, 293, 294, 315, 390, 400–2, 415, 432, 442, 443, 451, 481–2, 500, 531

Clark, Tom C., Attorney General 373, 482, 494

Cleveland, Grover, President 16

Cockcroft, John 101, 187–90, 191, 193, 195, 196, 252, 293

Cohn, Roy 591–2

Columbia, University of (NYC) 18, 20, 204, 259, 261, 285, 309, 324, 391, 406, 415–16, 497, 504, 640–41, 652

Jewish students 52, 53

Communist Party, US 221, 223, 232, 233, 234, 235–6, 237, 238, 239–44, 259, 268–9, 270–71, 274–5, 277, 279, 280, 281, 300–1, 302, 308, 345

Como: International Physics Congress (1927) 137, 138, 140

Comptes rendus
(journal) 184, 215

Compton, Arthur 102, 125–6

meets RO 126

at Como conference 138

at Solvay Congress (1927) 138

disputes cosmic rays with Millikan 180

heads Bush’s committee on atomic bomb 295, 302

meetings with scientists 301, 302, 304, 306

disappointed in engineers 306

reports on possibility of atom bomb 306, 315

as member of S-1 307

oversees construction of first nuclear reactor 307, 309

at Chicago ‘Met Lab’ 309

and Breit 313, 314

impressed by RO 314

his recommendations approved by Roosevelt 315

meeting with RO to discuss dangers of atomic bomb 320–21

and Groves’s visit 324

not told about Los Alamos 327

watches first chain reaction 331

discusses plutonium production with RO 349–50

and Segré’s results 410

as member of Scientific Advisory Panel 430

attitude to use of bomb 434–5, 436

and May–Johnson Bill 474

thinks Russian possession of bomb ‘problematical’ 589

Compton, Elias 125

Compton, Karl T. 124, 125, 126, 128, 129

Compton, William 125

Conant, James:

heads NDRC 293, 295

and discussions on atomic bomb production 294, 295, 299, 301

reprimands Lawrence for telling RO of bomb 301

as chairman of S-1 302, 306–7

puts Lansdale in charge of security at Berkeley 310–11, 341

and RO 310, 311–12, 329, 333–4

told by Compton of first chain reaction 331

and implosion method 352, 413–14

and Lewis committee 353

and Trinity 438

and May–Johnson Bill 474

on Acheson’s committee 479, 480

on GAC 495

unconcerned by FBI file on RO 499

opposed to ‘Super’ 545–6, 547, 549, 550–51, 569, 570, 575

gives up serving on GAC 577

at RO’s hearing 614, 615

Condon, Edward 125, 131, 141

at Berkeley 165–6, 167

at Göttingen 124–5, 127, 128, 165, 167

and RO 125, 126

leaves to work under Sommerfeld 129

inspires Melba Phillips 174–5

publishes article on ‘quantum tunnelling’ 187

as associate director of Los Alamos 330, 331, 349–50, 353, 356, 357

opposes May–Johnson Bill 466, 472–3

appalled by RO’s article on Peters 535

influences RO 620

and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658

Condon, Emilie 125

Congress for Cultural Freedom 110, 646, 647–8, 656

Encounter
652, 653
n

Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences:
Transactions
75

Consodine, Major William 383

Conversi, Marcello 502–3, 509

Copenhagen: Bohr’s institute 103, 185, 206, 214, 253

Corben, Herbert 289

Corbin, Austin 12–13

Cornell University 14, 28, 214, 317, 483, 496, 512, 517, 527

cosmic rays 180–81, 182, 184, 185, 192–6, 205, 224—30, 245, 288–9, 292, 491, 492, 502, 516–17, 535, 646

Coster-Mullen, John 409–10

Coudert, Senator F. R. 303

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics 89

Courant, Ernest 38

Courant, Hans 38

Courant, Richard 136, 652

Crease, Robert 554, 600, 640, 654, 657

Critchfield, Charles 355, 413

Crowther, James:
Molecular Physics
75

Curie, Irène
see
Joliot-Curie, Irène

Curie, Marie 139, 147
n

Curtis, Howard J. 472, 474

cyclotrons 168–9, 186–7, 191, 196, 215–16, 264, 265–7, 296, 305, 307, 311, 312

Japanese 479

Daghlian, Henry K. 461–2, 463

Daily Herald
196

Daily Mirror
190

Daily Worker
274, 277

Dallett, Joe 277–8

Dancoff, Sidney 259, 260, 264, 283, 284, 287, 288, 511, 512

Darrow, Karl 503

Darwin, Charles 92

David, B. Edmund 21

Davies, Watson 472

Davis, Nuel Pharr:
Lawrence & Oppenheimer
109, 207, 314, 403–4

Dean, Gordon 552–3, 566, 568, 571, 574, 575, 577, 578, 594, 614, 630

de Silva, Captain Peer:

suspects RO 342, 343, 346, 347, 363, 613–14

summarises case against him 373–4

told about Chevalier 382

reports conversation with RO 387–8, 533, 534

memo on RO and Bohm 389

Desjardins, Paul 90

deuterium 183–4, 207, 213, 215, 319, 320, 322, 396, 545, 566, 568, 585–6

deuterons 215, 216, 225, 267

Deutsch, Monroe: RO to 460–61, 478

Didisheim, Jane (
later
Kayser) 30, 40, 41, 51, 70

Diebner, Kurt 402

Dirac, Margit (
née
Wigner) 217–18

Dirac, Paul 101, 108, 129, 203

and de Broglie’s ideas 103

and RO 101–2, 106, 129–30

and Heisenberg’s theory 105

publishes papers on quantum mechanics 105–6

and Schrödinger’s theory 107–8

submits PhD thesis 112, 115

and RO’s first paper 112–13, 171

at Göttingen 129, 130, 131

produces papers on ‘transformation theory’ and QED 130, 156

as Ehrenfest’s guest in Leiden 136

at Solvay Congress (1927) 139

on American physicists 141

made fellow of St John’s, Cambridge 143

introduces ‘Dirac equation’ 157, 158

and Anderson’s discovery of the positron 191–3, 194

becomes Lucasian Professor of Mathematics 193

helps Blackett and Occhialini 195

disillusioned 208

his theory investigated by Plesset and RO 204–5, 206, 207–8, and reformulated by RO and Furry 209

and Ehrenfest’s suicide 206

awarded Nobel Prize (1933) 116, 209–10

at Institute for Advanced Study 217, 507, 508

marriage 217–18

opposed to Schwinger’s theory 521

articles
:

‘The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics’ 105

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics
217, 285

‘Quantum Mechanics’ 112

‘Quantum Mechanics and a Preliminary Investigation of the Hydrogen Atom’ 106

‘Theory of the Positron’ 207–8

‘Dirac equation’ 157, 158, 176–7

Donne, John 234, 427

Doyle, Bernadette 366, 375

Dresden, bombing of (1945) 428

Du Bos, Charles 90

DuBridge, Lee 495, 516, 547, 550–51, 563–4, 565, 574, 575, 577, 578, 585, 614

Dudley, Colonel W. H. 327

Duffield, Priscilla 425

Dulles, Allen W. 581, 583, 601

Dulles, John Foster 583, 587, 649

‘A Policy of Boldness’ 583–4

Dunning, John 324

Dyson, Freeman:

impresses RO and Pais 512

on Schwinger 512–14, 517–18

on Tomonaga, 515

obsessed with new QED 517

at Ann Arbor summer school 517

and Feynman 517

publishes ‘The Radiation Theories of Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman’ 208, 283, 518–19, 520

shocked by RO’s change of attitude towards Schwinger’s theory 520, 521

relations with RO 521–3, 526, 632, 633, 642

and Eliot 526

chooses to work with Peierls 523, 526–7

becoming ‘a Big Shot’ 523

attends American Physical Society annual meeting with RO 527

at Pocono conference 529

on RO 529, 631

fails to win Nobel Prize 530

edits special issue of
Reviews of Modern Physics
for RO’s 60th birthday 657, 658

and RO’s illness 666–7

Dyson, George 512

Eaton, Ralph 62

Economist
,
The
489, 599

Edsall, John 57–8, 78, 81, 91, 97, 100, 107, 108–9, 111–12, 114, 143

Eger, Clara (
née
Binswanger) 18

Eger, David 18

Ehrenfest, Paul 151–2, 167

and RO 113, 136, 137, 143, 144, 151, 152–3, 155–6, 159, 161

Born’s letters to 133, 136–7

on Bohr 140

Pauli to 160

and
Faust
pastiche 185