by Bill Bryson
paramecia, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Parkinson, James, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 06.1
parsecs, Chapter 11.1
particle detector, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
particles, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 11.1, 11.2, Chapter 17.1
Pasteur, Louis, Chapter 20.1, Chapter 24.1
Patterson, Clair, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Pauli, Wolfgang, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Pauling, Linus, Chapter 26.1, 26.2, 26.3
Pauw, Corneille de, Chapter 06.1
Peabody, George, Chapter 06.1
Peabody Museum, Chapter 06.1
Peale, Charles Willson, Chapter 30.1
Pearce, Chaning, Chapter 06.1
peas, Chapter 25.1, 25.2
Peebles, Curtis, Chapter 13.1
Peking man, Chapter 28.1, 28.2, Chapter 29.1, 29.2
Pelizzari, Umberto, Chapter 16.1, 16.2
Pelletier, P. J., Chapter 09.1
penguins, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
penicillin, Chapter 20.1
Penn, William, Chapter 04.1
Penzias, Arno, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, Chapter 08.1
peridotite, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Periodic Table, Chapter 07.1, 07.2, 07.3
Perlmutter, Saul, Chapter 03.1
Permian: extinction, Chapter 21.1, Chapter 22.1, 22.2; period, Chapter 05.1, 22.3
Perutz, Max, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 26.1
Petralona skull, Chapter 29.1
petrified logs, Chapter 22.1
phlogiston, Chapter 07.1
phosphorus, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 19.1
photoelectric effect, Chapter 08.1
photons, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, 01.3, Chapter 11.1
photosynthesis, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 19.1, 19.2, Chapter 20.1, Chapter 27.1
phyla, Chapter 23.1
phytoplankton, Chapter 18.1
Piazzi, Giuseppe, Chapter 13.1
Picard, Jean, Chapter 04.1, 04.2
Piccard, Auguste and Jacques, Chapter 18.1
Pickering, William H., Chapter 08.1
Pillmore, C. L., Chapter 13.1
Pitangus sulphuratus, Chapter 30.1
pitchblende, Chapter 07.1
Planck, Max, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, 08.3, 08.4
planets, number of, Chapter 02.1, Chapter 16.1
plankton, Chapter 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
plants, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 23.1, 23.2
plate tectonics, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 10.1, Chapter 12.1, 12.2, Chapter 27.1
Playfair, John, Chapter 05.1, 05.2, 05.3
plesiosaurus, Chapter 06.1
Plutinos, Chapter 02.1
Pluto: discovery, Chapter 02.1; distance from Earth, 02.2; life on, Chapter 16.1n; moon, 02.3, 02.4, 16.2; orbit, 02.5; planet, 02.6
Plutonists, Chapter 05.1, 05.2
plutonium, Chapter 16.1
Polaris, Chapter 08.1
polymers, Chapter 19.1, 19.2
Pope, Alexander, Chapter 04.1
Popper, Karl, Chapter 11.1
potassium, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 16.1
Potts, Rick, Chapter 29.1
Powell, James Lawrence, Chapter 22.1
Precambrian era, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 21.1, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 25.1
Priestley, Joseph, Chapter 07.1
primates, Chapter 23.1
Prince William Sound earthquake, Chapter 27.1
Princeton University, Chapter 01.1, Chapter 12.1
Proconsul, Chapter 28.1
proteins, Chapter 16.1, Chapter 19.1, 19.2, Chapter 24.1, 24.2, Chapter 26.1, 26.2
proteome, Chapter 26.1
protists, Chapter 19.1
protons, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 09.1, 09.2, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
protozoa, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 17.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 24.1
Proxima Centauri, Chapter 02.1, 02.2
pterodactyls, Chapter 06.1
quantum leap, Chapter 09.1
quantum theory, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
quarks, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
quintessence, Chapter 11.1
races, human, Chapter 29.1
radiation: cosmic background, Chapter 01.1, Chapter 08.1; effect on bacteria, Chapter 20.1; Einstein’s work, 08.2; sickness, Chapter 07.1
radio waves, Chapter 09.1
radioactive waste, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
radioactivity, Chapter 07.1, 07.2, 07.3, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 20.1
radiocarbon dating, Chapter 10.1
radiolarians, Chapter 17.1
rainforests, Chapter 23.1
Raup, David, Chapter 22.1, Chapter 30.1
Ray, John, Chapter 23.1
Reader, John, Chapter 28.1
red blood cells, Chapter 24.1, Chapter 26.1
red giants, Chapter 08.1
Rees, Martin, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 11.1
refrigerators, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 10.1, 10.2
Reines, Frederick, Chapter 08.1n
relativity theory: bending of universe, Chapter 01.1, Chapter 08.1; General Theory, 08.2, 08.3, Chapter 11.1; gravity, Chapter 09.1; Special Theory, 08.4, 08.5; understanding, 08.6
reptiles, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
retroviruses, Chapter 26.1
Riccioli, Giovanni Battista, Chapter 04.1
Richter, Charles, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Richter scale, Chapter 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Rickover, Hyman G., Chapter 18.1
Ridley, Matt, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 26.1, Chapter 28.1
Riwoche horse, Chapter 23.1 RNA, Chapter 26.1, 26.2, 26.3 Roentgen, Wilhelm, Chapter 09.1
Rothschild, Lionel Walter, Baron, Chapter 30.1, 30.2
roughy, orange, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
Rowlandson, Thomas, Chapter 06.1
Royal Institution, Chapter 07.1, 07.2
Royal Society: Challenger expedition, Chapter 18.1; Dalton’s work, Chapter 09.1; Darwin’s work, Chapter 25.1; Leeuwenhoek’s work, Chapter 24.1, 24.2; Mantell’s paper, Chapter 06.1; Mason’s work, Chapter 04.1, 04.2; Owen’s career, 06.2; publications, 04.3; status, Chapter 05.1; symposium, Chapter 12.1
Rozier, Pilatre de, Chapter 04.1
Rudwick, Martin, Chapter 05.1, 05.2
Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count von, Chapter 07.1, 07.2, 07.3, 07.4, Chapter 13.1, Chapter 17.1
Runcorn, S. K., Chapter 12.1
Ruska, Chapter 08.1n
Russell, Bertrand, Chapter 08.1
Rutherford, Ernest: on age of Earth, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 07.1; career, Chapter 09.1, 09.2; character, 09.3; on heat reserves, Chapter 12.1; photograph, 09.4; work on atoms, 09.5, 09.6, Chapter 10.1
Sacks, Oliver, Chapter 03.1
Sagan, Carl, Chapter 02.1, 02.2, Chapter 11.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 22.1
Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Chapter 28.1
saltationists, Chapter 25.1
salts, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
San Andreas Fault, Chapter 11.1, Chapter 14.1
San Francisco earthquake, Chapter 13.1, Chapter 14.1
Sandage, Allan, Chapter 11.1
Sandler, Howard, Chapter 18.1
Scheele, Karl, Chapter 07.1
Schiehallion, mountain, Chapter 04.1, 04.2
Schimper, Karl, Chapter 27.1, 27.2
Schlapkohl, Anna, Chapter 13.1
Schouten, Peter, Chapter 30.1, 30.2
Schrödinger, Erwin, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 09.1, 09.2, 09.3, 09.4
Schultz, Gwen, Chapter 27.1
Schwalbe, Gustav, Chapter 28.1
Schwann, Theodor, Chapter 24.1, 24.2
Schwartz, Jeffrey, Chapter 25.1, Chapter 28.1, 28.2, Chapter 29.1
sea cow, Chapter 30.1, 30.2
sea level, Chapter 18.1
seals, Chapter 18.1
Sedgwick, Adam, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 25.1
selenium, Chapter 16.1
Shark Bay, stromatolites, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 19.1
sharks, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 22.1
Sheehan, Peter, Chapter 22.1
sheep, Chapter 16.1
Shelley, Mary, Chapter 07.1
shells, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 23.1
Shipman, Pat, Chapter 28.1, Chapter 29.1
Shoemaker, Eugene: comet, Chapter 13.1; death, 13.2; on impact theory, 13.3; Manson crater work, 13.4; Meteor Crater work, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8; photograph, 13.9; survey of inner solar system, 13.10
Shoemaker-Levy comet, Chapter 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
SHRIMP (Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe), Chapter 19.1
Siegel, Lee J., Chapter 15.1
Silurian period, Chapter 05.1, 05.2
Simpson, George Gaylord, Chapter 12.1
Sinanthropus pekinensis, Chapter 28.1
singularity, Chapter 01.1, 01.2
sleeping sickness, Chapter 20.1
SLiME (sub-surface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems), Chapter 20.1
slime moulds, Chapter 20.1
Slipher, Vesto, Chapter 08.1, 08.2, 08.3
Smith, A. J. E., Chapter 23.1
Smith, Anthony, Chapter 17.1
Smith, Robert B., Chapter 15.1, 15.2
Smith, William, Chapter 06.1
snails, Chapter 23.1, 23.2
snakes, Chapter 22.1
Snow, C. P., Chapter 08.1, 08.2, 08.3, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Snowball Earth, Chapter 27.1
snowflakes, Chapter 19.1
SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism), Chapter 26.1
Sobel, Dava, Chapter 04.1
Soddy, Frederick, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 12.1
sodium, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 16.1
solar flares, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
solar system: birth, Chapter 03.1; size, Chapter 02.1, 02.2
Sollas, William, Chapter 28.1
Solo People, Chapter 28.1
Somervell, Howard, Chapter 17.1
space: curvature of, Chapter 01.1; distances between stars, Chapter 02.1
spaceships, Chapter 17.1
spacetime, Chapter 08.1, 08.2
speech, Chapter 28.1
Spencer, Herbert, Chapter 25.1
spin, Chapter 09.1
sponges, Chapter 24.1, 24.2
Sprigg, Reginald, Chapter 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, Chapter 22.1
squeeze, the, Chapter 16.1
squid, giant, Chapter 18.1
Standard Model, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
Stanley, Steven M., Chapter 22.1
stars: classification, Chapter 08.1; distances between, Chapter 02.1, Chapter 03.1; neutron, 03.2; new, Chapter 01.1; trails round celestial pole, 02.2; visible, 03.3
stellar swarm, Chapter 01.1
Steller, Georg, Chapter 30.1
Stephens Island wrens, Chapter 30.1
Stewart, William, Chapter 20.1
Strathern, Paul, Chapter 07.1
stratosphere, Chapter 17.1
streamer chamber, Chapter 11.1
Strickland, H. E., Chapter 30.1
Stricklandian Code, Chapter 23.1
string theory, Chapter 11.1, 11.2
stromatolites, Chapter 18.1, Chapter 19.1, 19.2
Strominger, Andrew, Chapter 11.1
strontium, Chapter 07.1
Suess, Eduard, Chapter 12.1, 12.2
Sullivan, John, Chapter 06.1
sulphur, Chapter 03.1, Chapter 19.1, Chapter 20.1
Sulston, John, Chapter 26.1
Sun: age, Chapter 05.1; appearance from Pluto, Chapter 02.1; formation, Chapter 03.1; helium, Chapter 07.1; mass, Chapter 04.1; solar flares, Chapter 22.1, 22.2
Superconducting Supercollider, Chapter 10.1, Chapter 11.1
supernovae, Chapter 03.1, 03.2, 03.3, 03.4
superplumes, Chapter 15.1
Super-Proton-Synchroton accelerator, Chapter 11.1
Surowiecki, James, Chapter 20.1
sweating sickness, Chapter 20.1
Swift, Jonathan, Chapter 23.1
Sykes, Bryan, Chapter 29.1
synapsids, Chapter 22.1
syphilis, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 10.1
tachyons, Chapter 11.1
takahe, Chapter 23.1
Tambora eruption, Chapter 27.1
Tasmanian tiger, Chapter 30.1
Tattersall, Ian: on brain size, Chapter 28.1; on extinction, Chapter 22.1; on fossil record, 28.2; on habilis, 28.3; on Homo sapiens, Chapter 29.1, 29.2; on Laetoli footprints, 28.4; on Lucy, 28.5; on Portuguese skeleton, 29.3; on tool manufacture, 29.4, 29.5
Taung child, Chapter 28.1, 28.2, 28.3
taxonomy, Chapter 23.1, 23.2
Taylor, Frank Bursley, Chapter 12.1
Teton range, Chapter 15.1
tetrapods, Chapter 22.1
therapsids, Chapter 22.1
thermodynamics, Chapter 05.1, Chapter 08.1
Thermodynamics, Second Law of, Chapter 05.1
thermohaline circulation, Chapter 17.1
thermometer, Chapter 17.1
thermosphere, Chapter 17.1
Thomson, J. J., Chapter 08.1, Chapter 09.1, 09.2
Thomson, William, see Kelvin
Thomson, Wyville, Chapter 17.1
Thorne, Alan, Chapter 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4
Thorne, Kip S., Chapter 03.1, Chapter 08.1
Thorstensen, John, Chapter 03.1, 03.2
thunderstorms, Chapter 17.1
Toba eruption, Chapter 15.1
Tokyo earthquake, Chapter 14.1, 14.2
Tombaugh, Clyde, Chapter 02.1, 02.2, 02.3
tools, Chapter 28.1, Chapter 29.1, 29.2, 29.3
Toona ciliata, Chapter 23.1
tornado, Chapter 17.1
Torsvik, Vigdis, Chapter 23.1
trawlers, Chapter 18.1
Tree of Life, Chapter 20.1, 20.2
trees, Chapter 22.1
Trefil, James: on atoms, Chapter 09.1, Chapter 11.1; on cells, Chapter 24.1; on clouds, Chapter 17.1; on convection process, Chapter 14.1; on tectonic plates, Chapter 12.1
triangulation, Chapter 04.1n, 04.2
Triassic: extinction, Chapter 22.1; period, Chapter 05.1
Trieste, bathyscaphe, Chapter 18.1, 18.2
trilobites, Chapter 12.1, Chapter 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
Trinil skullcap, Chapter 28.1
Trinkaus, Erik, Chapter 29.1, 29.2
troposphere, Chapter 17.1
Tryon, Edward P., Chapter 01.1
Tsurutani, Bruce, Chapter 22.1
turbulence, Chapter 17.1
Turkana skeletons, Chapter 28.1, 28.2
Turner, J. M. W., Chapter 27.1
turtles, Chapter 22.1
Tyrannosaurus rex, Chapter 06.1, Chapter 21.1, Chapter 27.1
Uncertainty Principle, Chapter 09.1
uniformitarianism, Chapter 05.1
universe: age, Chapter 08.1, Chapter 11.1; beginning, Chapter 01.1, 01.2, 08.2, 08.3; edge, 01.3, 01.4, 11.2; expansion, 01.5, 01.6, 01.7, 08.4, 11.3; matter, 11.4; size, 01.8, 01.9, 01.10, 08.5, 11.5
universes, numbers of, Chapter 01.1
uranium, Chapter 07.1, Chapter 08.1, Chapter 10.1, 10.2, Chapter 20.1