Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (150 page)

‘On the Quantum Theory of Continuous Spectra’ 129

‘On the Quantum Theory of Molecules’ 133–5

‘On the Quantum Theory of the Problem of the Two Bodies’ 113, 114, 116, 121–2

‘On the Quantum Theory of Vibration-Rotation Bands’ 112–13, 114

‘On the Radiation of Electrons in a Coulomb Field’ 161

‘On the Spin of the Mesotron’ 289

‘On the Stability of Stellar Neutron Cores’ (with Serber) 248

‘On the Theory of the Electron and the Positive’ (with Furry) 208–9

‘The Production of Positives by Nuclear Gamma Rays’ (with Nedelsky) 208

‘The Production of Soft Secondaries by Mesotrons’ (with Serber and Snyder) 288–9

‘Reaction of Radiation on Electron Scatterng and Heitler’s Theory of Radiation Dampening’ (with Bethe) 491–2

‘Relativistic Theory of the Photoelectric Effect’ 175, 176

Reports to our Colleagues
270–72, 273, 275, 662

‘The Role of the Big Accelerators’ 646–7

‘Science and Culture’ 652

‘Three Notes on the Quantum Theory of Aperiodic Effects’ 143

lectures:

‘The Added Cubit’ 652–4

‘Atom and Field’ 650

‘Atomic Energy as a Contemporary Problem’ 502, 504, 509

‘Atomic Weapons and American Policy’ 587–90, 593

‘Electron Theory Description and Analogy’ 635–7

‘The Intimate and the Open’ 658–9

‘The Open Mind’ 531–2

‘Physics and Man’s Understanding’ 664–5

‘Physics in the Contemporary World’ 510–11, 515

‘Physics Tonight’ 637–8, 639

Reith Lectures 599–601, 604

‘Space and Time’ 650

‘Stars and Nuclei’ 247

‘The Sub-Nuclear Zoo . . .’ 635

‘Thirty Years of Mesons’ 666

‘A Time in Need’ 667

‘To Live with Ourselves’ 664

‘The Tree of Knowledge’ 643, 644

‘War and the Nations’ 650

William James Lectures 641–2

Osborn, Frederick 500

Ostwald, Wilhelm 75

Page, Katherine Chaves 49, 50, 69, 70, 71, 85, 149, 163, 278

Page, Winthrop 49

‘pair production’ 192, 193, 195, 196, 205

Pais, Abraham xi, 496–7

meets RO 497

joins him at Institute 497–8, 507, 508, 631–2, 642

dislikes Kitty 279

at Shelter Island Conference 501, 503

hears Powell’s report on meson experiments 509

and Einstein 509

hears Schwinger’s lectures 512, 513

impressed by Dyson 512

at Pocono conference 513, 514

on Feynman 514, 529

meets T. S. Eliot 526

praises RO photograph 539

not mentioned in
Life
article 541

on GAC meeting (1949) 546

on RO at Strauss’s party 554

on RO at 4th Rochester conference 604

collaboration with Gell-Mann 632

watches RO’s TV interview 633

loses bet with Wheeler 640

at 12th Solvay Congress 643

leaves Institute 654–5

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

speaks at RO’s memorial service 669

on RO 129, 148, 155, 176, 205

on RO’s children 644

Pancini, Ettore 502–3, 509

Parsons, Martha 425

Parsons, William (‘Deak’) 330, 354–5, 408–9, 411, 412–13, 414, 444, 445, 447, 448, 602

particle accelerators 168, 213, 224, 327, 542, 572, 646

see also
cyclotrons

particle physics 226, 227

Pash, Lt-Colonel Boris 342

suspects RO of espionage 342, 343, 344, 346

keeps him under surveillance 358, 359

recommends he be refused clearance 360

clashes with Lansdale 361, 362, 363

interviews RO (1943) 369–73, 375, 376, 494, 611–12, 622, 623

continues to suspect him 373, 374

urges Groves to investigate further 377

orders train to be stopped 379–80

continues to try and identify RO’s ‘unnamed professor’ 381, 382

sent on Alsos mission 380, 381, 402

at RO’s security hearing 342, 379, 608, 619

Patterson, Robert 332, 473, 484, 500

Pauli, Wolfgang 136, 159–60

at Como conference 138, 139

on Bohr and Kramers 154

agrees to work with RO 155–6

collaborates with Heisenberg 156, 157–8, 161

and RO 158, 159–60, 161, 204

his hypothetical particle (‘neutron’) 177–9, 180, 181, 183, 185, 186, 228

dismissive of RO/Furry theory 209

on RO’s students 211, 286

and Schwinger 285

and RO’s scheme to mislead potential snoops 347

Pauling, Ava Helen 146–7

Pauling, Linus 146, 147
and n
, 175, 621, 651

Pegram, George 261, 307, 308, 309

Peierls, Rudolf 160–61, 291

publishes paper on critical mass 291

collaborates with Frisch on memorandum on ‘Super-bomb’ 291–3, 316, 352, 395, 409

and Fuchs 391, 406

and German physicists 392

discusses implosion with RO 415–16, 417
n
, 424

leads Los Alamos implosion theory group 418

organises Birmingham conference (1948) 519

and Dyson 523, 526–7

Peng Huanwu 491

Penney, William 391

People’s World
(newspaper) 274, 301

Perro Caliente 149–50, 163–4, 222, 276, 278, 460

Peters, Bernard 259, 336, 377, 387, 388, 533–6, 611, 620

Peters, Hannah 259

Philby, Kim 300, 390

Phillips, Melba 174–5, 204, 210, 212, 215, 216–17, 221–2, 225

Philosophical Magazine
103

‘photoelectric effect’ 175, 176

photons 87, 102, 137, 158, 184, 192

Physical Review
143, 161, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 194, 196, 205, 208, 209, 227, 285, 228–9, 248, 249, 261, 287, 289, 305, 313, 491, 502, 512, 515, 517, 632, 640

Physics Today
515–16, 635–8, 639, 655

Piaget, Jean 634

Picasso, Pablo 22

Piccioni, Oreste 502–3, 509

Pieper, Special Agent N. J. L. 310

Pierce, George Washington 76

Pike, Sumner T. 493, 552

Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountains 227

Pire, Father 659

Pitzer, Kenneth 574, 575, 577, 605, 616, 621

Placzek, George 244–5, 552

Planck, Max 107, 139, 198, 637

Planck’s constant 79
n
, 87, 158

Plaut, Joseph 21

Plesset, Milton 204–5, 206

plutonium 258, 261, 307, 309, 316, 331–2, 351, 353, 354, 395–6, 405, 406, 407–8, 424

reactor-produced 408, 409, 410, 412, 471
n
, 548

Pocono Manor Conference (1948) 513–14, 515

Poincaré, Henri 75

‘Poisson brackets’ 105, 106

Pollak, Inez 40, 41, 55, 93–4, 147

Pollak, Kitty 40

polonium 95
n
, 184, 292, 409

Pond, Ashley 338

Pontigny, France: annual colloquia 90

positrons 176–7, 191–2, 194–6, 205, 207–8
and n
, 209, 501
n
, 529

Potsdam Declaration (1945) 443–4, 449, 455, 456

Powell, Cecil 504, 509, 523

Powers, Thomas:
Heisenberg’s War
397
n

Priestley, Raymond 89–90, 99, 117

Antarctic Adventure
89

Breaking the Hindenburg Line
89

Princeton: Jews 52
see also
Institute for Advanced Study

‘Project Vista’ 563, 564–5, 573

protons 95

Proust, Marcel:
À la recherche du temps perdu
110

Puck
(newspaper) 12

Puening, Franz 276

Puening, Kaethe (
née
Vissering) 276

‘pulsars’ 250

Purnell, Admiral William 452, 453–4

QED
see
quantum electrodynamics quantum electrodynamics (QED) 130, 156–7, 161, 176, 540

quantum mechanics 104–6, 107–8, 112–17, 127, 129, 170–71

and ‘uncertainty principle’ 131, 137, 138

and principle of complementarity 137

Copenhagen Interpretation 137–8

quantum theory 87, 95, 99, 101

‘old quantum theory’ 86, 87, 166–7

‘quantum tunnelling’ 143, 187

Quebec Agreement 390, 391, 397

Rabi, Helen 331

Rabi, Isidor 3, 4

friendship with RO 158–9

views on RO 3, 34, 67, 158, 160, 161, 173, 201–2, 440, 669–70

on American scientists 141, 165

and Schwinger 285, 496

tells Fermi news of nuclear fission 255

refuses post at Los Alamos 331

advises RO 329, 331, 334

and Trinity bomb 440–41

RO wants him at Caltech 461

plans international policy for atomic energy with RO 479, 480

on GAC 495

reports experimental results at Shelter Island Conference 501, 504, 510

excited by Schwinger’s theory 511–12

offers Dyson position 523

at GAC meeting 547, 548, 549

writes ‘minority’ report 551, 552, 581–2

furious with Truman 554

tempted to resign 555

and Serber 571

and Griggs 575, 580–81

and Lincoln Project 580

wants ban on H-bomb tests 584

a member of ZORC 581, 591

and RO’s hearing 604, 614, 615

dismissive of Shepley/Blair book 630

watches RO’s TV interview 633

and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658

Radest, Howard B.:
Toward Common Ground
14, 21, 32

radiation: alpha and beta 177–8

from atomic bombs 352, 438, 442, 454, 462–3, 489, 543, 595, 609

radiation sickness 461–2, 463, 609

Radin, Paul 240

radioactivity 85, 95
n
, 168, 178
and n
,

183
n
, 215–16, 267, 352
n
, 420

radium 95
n
, 168, 253, 293, 407

Rainowitch, Eugene 557

‘RaLa’ method 420, 423, 424

Ramsauer, Carl 143

‘Ramsauer effect’ 143–4, 148, 152

Ramsay, Sir William (ed.):
Textbooks of Physical Chemistry
76
n

Ramseyer, Frank 277

Randall, Merle:
Thermodynamics
(with G. Lewis) 75, 166

Rarita, William 289

Ray, Maud 293

Raymond, Natalie 173, 174

Rea, Lt-Colonel 462

reactors, nuclear 306, 307, 309, 317, 328
n
, 331–2, 408, 409, 537

heavy water 396–7, 546

Reviews of Modern Physics
264, 542, 657–8

Reynold’s Illustrated News
190

Rhine, Alice: ‘Race Prejudice at Summer Resorts’ 15–16

Rhodes, Richard 406

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
437

Rhodes Scholarships 62, 63–4

Richards, I. A.: on Blackett 94, 117

Riefenstahl, Charlotte 124, 141–2

Rieff, Philip 506

Ritter, Major T. H. 450–51

Robb, Roger 605, 606, 608, 610–15, 616, 617–18, 623

Robbins, Dr W. J. 156, 161–2

Roberts, John 661

Rochester, George 516

Rochester, University of 531, 534, 535, 536, 542

Rochester Conferences 604–5, 632, 634, 638–40

Rochester
Times-Union
(newspaper) 534–5, 536

Rockefeller Foundation 128, 130, 161, 267

see also
International Education Board

Rogers, William P. 607

Roosevelt, Eleanor 558

Roosevelt, Franklin D., President 219

and Einstein’s warning letter 263

sets up Advisory Committee on Uranium 263, 293

and RO’s support 275

and atomic-bomb programme 301–2, 306, 307, 308, 311, 315

sends RO letter of appreciation 363

signs Quebec Agreement 390

Thanksgiving Day proclamation (1943) 380

and Bohr 399, 400, 401

agrees with Churchill not to share ‘secret’ of atomic bomb 401–2

and Szilard 433

death 428

see also
New Deal

Roosevelt, Theodore, President 28, 41

Rosenberg, Ethel 421, 422, 556

Rosenberg, Julius 421, 422, 556

Rosenfeld, Léon 255, 261

Rossi, Bruno Benedetto 423, 424, 505, 516

Roswell: New Mexico Military Institute 47, 59

Rotblat, Joseph 402–3

Rothfeld, Sigmund 9, 11, 14–15, 19, 20

Rothfeld, Solomon 9, 11, 14–15, 19, 20

Rothfeld, Stern & Co. 15, 17–18, 20, 31

Rowe, Hartley 495, 549
n
, 550, 614

Royal, Denise: biography of RO 145, 163, 180

Royal Society 113, 157, 168, 189–90, 195

Proceedings
105, 106, 184–5, 188

Russell, Bertrand 80, 81, 82, 90

Principia Mathematica
82

The ABC of Atoms
190

Russell, Katharine 628

Rutherford, Sir Ernest 77, 85, 252

model of atom 85–7, 95, 102, 167

as director of Cavendish Laboratory 99

predicts existence of ‘neutrons’ 177, 183

rejects RO’s application 85, 87–9, 92, 96

and Blackett’s photographs of nuclear transformation process 94–5

and Kapitza 100

introduces RO to Bohr 113–14

at Como conference 138

sees need for producing particles artificially 168

and splitting of the atom by Cockcroft and Walton 187–90

advises Dirac to accept Nobel Prize 209–10

Ryder, Arthur 199, 200, 439, 651

S-1 (‘Section One’) committee 306–7, 308–9, 310, 311, 312–14, 315, 322

Sachs, Alexander 263

Sachs, Emanie:
Red Damask
10, 22, 46

Sachs, Paul 40, 55

Sachs, Samuel 40

Sachs family 9, 15, 41

Sagane, Ryokichi 454–5

San Francisco Examiner
187, 210, 255, 256

Santa Fe 338–9, 340, 341

Saratoga: Grand Union Hotel 12, 16

Saturday Evening Post
644

Schecter, Jerold and Leona:
Sacred Secrets
308

Schein, Marcel 244–5

Schiff, Jacob H. 15, 54

Schiff, Leonard 283, 284, 287, 288, 658

Schiffs, the 9

Schlapp, Robert 129

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr 646

Schneiderman, William 280–81, 301, 310

Schrödinger, Erwin: wave mechanics theory 107–8, 115–16, 157, 171