Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 296
Aleckovic, Mira, 87
algebra, 17
All Quiet on the Western Front, 372
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 136
“American Creed, The,” 530–31
American Friends Service Committee, 445, 624n
ammonia, 206
AM radio signals, 111
Analysis of the Sensations (Mach), 81
analytic propositions, 82–83
Anderson, Marian, 445
Andromeda galaxy, 254, 353
Annalen derPhysik, 57, 58, 70, 94, 102, 127, 138, 140, 190–91, 220
Antigone (Sophocles), 81
anti-Semitism, 3, 15, 30, 43, 61, 142, 149, 152, 163–64, 177, 183, 207, 269–71, 281–308, 311–12, 315, 359, 403–10, 427, 428–30, 443, 444–45, 469, 475, 505, 517, 524, 567n, 601n
“Appeal to the Cultured World” (“Manifesto of the 93”) (1914), 206–7, 244
Arabs, 381, 409, 520, 541
Aristarchus, 518
Aristotle, 5
arms control, 487–95, 498, 500–501
Army, U.S., 478
Arrhenius, Svante, 310, 311, 312, 314
Aspect, Alain, 458
Associated Press, 355
Association of Manhattan Project Scientists, 491
astrology, 384
astronomy, 5, 191, 202–5, 218, 253, 254–62, 267, 269, 275–76, 311, 316, 317, 353–56
atheism, 386, 388–90, 462, 587n
Atlantic, 489, 497
atomic bomb, 5, 272, 382, 415, 469–76, 480–86, 489–90, 497–98, 500, 509, 525, n–32n
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 531–32
“Atomic War or Peace” (Einstein), 489–90, 497–98
atomic weight, 57
atoms:
existence of, 2, 43, 56, 57, 70, 93, 94, 95, 101, 103, 104, 140, 164, 169, 255
gas, 164, 323, 480–81
momentum and position in, 323, 346, 348–49
nucleus of, 322, 456
splitting of (nuclear fission), 469–72
structure of, 314, 321–22, 325, 345, 456
subatomic particles of, 316, 322–33, 334, 345, 352, 353, 454, 459–60, 463–64, 512, 538, 625n, 627n
Attempt at a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies (Lorentz), 116–17
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 163–64
autism, 566n
Avogadro, Amedeo, 101–2
Avogadro’s number, 101–3, 106
Aydelotte, Frank, 480–81
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 29, 38, 420, 472
Bad Nauheim conference (1920), 287–89
Baldwin, Roger, 380
Balfour, Arthur, 290
Ballets Russes, 280
Balthazar (Durrell), 279
Bamberger, Louis, 395, 397
Baron-Cohen, Simon, 566n
Barrow, John, 351–52
Baruch, Bernard, 474
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 29, 38, 207, 536
Begin, Menachem, 520
Beginning or the End, The, 491–93
Belgian War Resisters’ Committee, 417
Belgium, 168, 471–73
Bell, John Stewart, 458
Ben-Gurion, David, 508, 521, 523
Berkeley, George, 81, 350
Berks, Robert, 604n
Berlin, Isaiah, 278
Berlin, University of, 14, 168, 178–81, 184–89, 201, 202, 203–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 227n, 228–32, 234, 236, 237, 241–42, 246–48, 249, 259, 261–62, 271, 277, 280, 281–89, 301–6, 307, 315, 318, 356–59, 362, 363, 364, 381–83, 384, 387–89, 392, 394–95, 399–401, 403, 408, 411, 471, 523, 601n
Berliner Tageblatt, 285–88, 359
Berlin Physical Society, 96
Bern, University of, 142, 144–53
Bern Clock Tower, 107, 113, 124, 125–26
Bern Scientific Society, 438
Bernstein, Aaron, 18–19, 567n
Bernstein, Jeremy, 468, 576n
Besso, Anna Winteler, 27, 62, 231, 237, 418, 517, 540, 636n
Besso, Michele Angelo, 27, 61–62, 66, 83, 85, 101, 106, 113, 122, 126, 128, 136, 150, 151, 169, 170, 174, 184, 186, 190, 199, 200–201, 210, 211, 213, 215, 218, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230–31, 234, 237, 239, 277, 322, 323, 334, 341, 355, 417, 418, 517, 538, 540, 576n, 591n, 636n
Bethe, Hans, 407
Bible, 20, 386, 391, 434
Bibo (Einstein’s parrot), 438, 535–36
Big Bang theory, 355
Biology of War, The (Nicolai), 244
birth control, 65–66
bivector fields, 512
Bizet, Georges, 370
blackbody radiation, 68, 94–95, 96, 98, 99–100, 118, 322
black holes, 250–52
Blackwood, Caroline, 433–34
Blumenfeld, Kurt, 282, 290, 303
Bohm, David, 458, 534
Bohr, Niels:
atomic model of, 314, 321–22, 325, 345
Einstein’s disputes with, 269, 324–26, 344–49, 496, 514–15, 539, 609n
at Institute for Advanced Study, 514–15
in Manhattan Project, 482–84
Nobel Prize awarded to, 325
photograph of, 336
quantum mechanics supported by, 324–26, 332–33, 344–49, 448, 451–52, 458, 468–69, 514–15, 626n
reputation of, 5, 269, 311, 330–31, 325, 338, 407
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 33, 49, 56–57, 67, 68, 69–72, 98
Bond, Horace, 505
Bond, Julian, 505
“border conditions,” 252–54, 265–66
Born, Hedwig, 270, 286–87, 330, 331, 372, 392, 393, 408, 429
Born, Max, 95, 100, 106, 132, 223–24, 241–42, 253, 267, 268, 269–70, 274, 286, 287, 288, 324, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335, 392, 393, 408, 413, 429, 432, 442, 448, 450, 461, 463, 464, 519–20, 538, 539
Bose, Satyendra Nath, 327–29, 609n
Bose-Einstein condensation, 328–29, 609n
Bose-Einstein statistics, 327–28
Boston Globe, 136
Boston Herald, 299
Brahe, Tycho, 166
Brahms, Johannes, 167
Brandeis, Louis, 298
Brandeis University, 522
Breuer, Marcel, 359–60
Briggs, Lyman, 476
Brillouin, Marcel, 313
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 90, 575n
Brod, Max, 166–67
Broglie, Louis de, 326–27, 330, 345, 347, 538–39, 583n
Brown, Robert, 103, 104
Brownian motion, 68, 93, 101, 103–6, 117, 118, 140, 351, 373, 577n
Brush, Steven, 99
Bucky, Gustav, 435, 438, 540, 544
Bucky, Peter, 435–36, 441, 443, 517
Bucky, Thomas, 379
Bush, Vannevar, 480, 481
Byland, Hans, 27–28
Byrnes, James, 484
calculus, 16, 93
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 315n, 368, 373, 374, 380–81, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431, 444
Calvin, John, 155
Cambridge University, 267
Canova, Antonio, 64
capillary effect, 56–58, 59, 68
capitalism, 497, 504
Carmen (Bizet), 370
Cartan, Elie Joseph, 344
Casablanca, 493
Case Western University, 300
cathode rays, 65
Catholic Church, 389
centrifugal force, 251–52
cerebral cortex, 547
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 81, 518
Chamberlain, Austen, 419–20
Chambers, Whittaker, 485
Chaplin, Charlie, 263, 268, 373, 374, 403, 427
chemical weapons, 206
Chicago Daily Tribune, 528
Chicago Herald and Examiner, 296
Chicago Tribune, 296–97
Chico (Einstein’s terrier), 438
chlorine gas, 206
Chopin, Frederic, 365
Christian Science, 444
Christoffel van de Hulst, Hendrik, 215
Churchill, Winston, 394, 412, 419, 483
City Lights, 263, 374
civil rights movement, 505, 531
Civil War, U.S., 488–89
Cohen, I. Bernard, 540–41
Cohn, Roy, 530
cold war, 499–500, 504
Collier’s, 445
Columbia University, 370, 471
communism, 287, 379–80, 399–401, 403, 420–21, 445–47, 478, 489–90, 494–503, 524–34, 550, 633n–34n
compasses, 13, 67, 462, 538, 548
complementarity, 452–53
Compton, Arthur, 345
Compton, Karl, 474
Concerto for Two Violins in D-minor (Bach), 430
condensation, 328–29
Congolese uranium exports, 471–73
Congressional Record, 295
constant velocity, 107–9, 114, 118–19, 127–31, 145, 148, 189, 201
Constitution, U.S., 510, 527–28, 530–31, 534
contraction, 112–13, 116
Copenhagen interpretation, 332–33, 347, 349, 424, 449, 453, 455, 457, 459–60, 626n–27n
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 108, 112, 163, 353
Cordoba observatory, 204
Cornell, Eric A., 329n
cosmic rays, 403 ”Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity” (Einstein), 252–53
cosmological constant, 254–55, 353–56, 372, 613n
cosmology, 223–24, 248, 249–62, 265–66, 353–56, 372, 442, 510–11, 613n
Cousins, Norman, 495
covariance, 195, 198–202, 212, 213, 218–22, 224, 591n–92n, 594n
Cox, Charming, 299n
“Creation of the United States of Europe, The,” 207–8
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 20, 574n
Crouch, Henry, 264
Crowther, Bosley, 493
Cupid and Psyche (Canova), 64
Curie, Marie, 168, 176, 181–82, 304, 305, 327
Dearborn Independent, 289
death penalty, 525–26
Debye, Peter, 176 ”Declaration of Protest,” 304
decoherent histories, 459–60, 626n–27n
Delong, Adelaide, 439–40
democracy, 240, 242, 287, 420, 423–24, 479–80, 489–90, 499, 503–7, 537
Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les (Picasso), 280
Depression, Great, 370–71, 516, 607n
determinism, 84, 156, 316, 317, 320–21, 323–25, 331–33, 334, 340, 345, 347, 349, 455, 575n
“Deutsch Physik” (“German Physics”), 289, 315, 405–10
Dewey, John, 377
Diaghilev, Serge, 280
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo), 108–9
Diamond, Marian, 547
differential calculus, 61
diffusion, 105, 223, 481–82
Dirac, Paul, 223, 345, 349
distant parallelism, 341, 343–44
DNA, 546–47
“Does the Field Theory Offer Possibilities for the Solution of Quanta Problems?” (Einstein), 340
“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?” (Einstein), 138–39
Dongen, Jeroen von, 594n
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 81, 518
Doppler effect (red shift), 119n, 148, 254, 311, 353–56
double stars, 580n Douglas, William O., 526
Drake, Tom, 492
“Dr. Einstein’s Mistaken Notions,” 497
Driving Mr. Albert (Paterniti), 546, 640n
Drude, Paul, 68–69, 71, 102
DuBois, W.E.B., 531
Duhem, Pierre, 158
Dukas, Helen, 84, 363, 371, 410, 424, 437–39, 443, 446, 479, 481, 482, 485, 501, 517, 521, 530, 541–42, 544, 633n, 636n, 639n
Durrell, Lawrence, 279
Dutch Royal Academy, 260–61
Dyson, Frank, 257, 261, 269
Dyson, Freeman, 134, 251, 269
Dyson, George, 363
E=mc2, 2, 5, 137–39, 140, 219, 272, 348, 469–70, 485, 604n
Eban, Abba, 521–22, 523, 541
echolalia, 9
eclipses, 5, 191, 202–5, 218, 255–62, 267, 269, 275–76, 311, 316, 317
Economist, 136
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 256–62, 264, 267, 279, 312, 321, 339, 340, 343, 355n, 600n, 601n
Eddy, Mary Baker, 343
Edison, Thomas, 6, 299
Edison test, 299
Ehrenfest, Paul, 68, 120, 132, 165, 167–68, 180, 184, 204, 205, 218, 234, 252, 259, 268, 271, 276, 281, 287, 289, 325, 331, 345, 396, 421–22
Einstein, Albert:
in Aarau, Germany, 25–31, 40, 46, 113, 115
at Aarenshoop resort, 238–39
absentmindedness of, 39, 44, 59, 203, 221n, 426–28, 435–36, 437, 438–41, 519
academic career of, 149–52, 158–63, 175–88, 239, 304–5, 368, 394–412, 431–32
academic positions sought by, 54–56, 57, 58–63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 78, 86, 92, 140, 142, 144–45, 149–53
aloofness of, 2, 5, 12–13, 41, 44, 100, 150–51, 154, 161–62, 184–86, 226, 231, 232–33, 271, 273–77, 280, 441–43, 516, 518, 519–20
anemia of, 517, 536
aneurysm of, 516–17, 536, 541–43
in Antwerp, 368
arms control supported by, 487–95, 498, 500–501
in Arosa, Switzerland, 234, 243
assimilation opposed by, 205–6, 280–84, 291, 302–4, 386, 408–10, 428
astrology and spiritualism as viewed by, 374, 384
atheism as viewed by, 386, 388–90, 462, 587n
Austro-Hungarian citizenship of, 163–64
authority questioned by, 2, 7, 8–9, 12–13, 20–22, 29, 34, 38, 49, 54–55, 67–72, 73, 113, 180, 240, 317, 378–79, 550
autograph of, 369, 445
awards and honors received by, 3, 60, 101, 154–55, 235, 236, 243, 280, 297, 309–16, 337, 348, 352, 368, 387, 438, 490, 505, 516, 533–34, 606n, 607n
at Bad Nauheim conference, 287–89
in Belgium, 168–71, 289–91, 344–49, 405, 410–22
as Berlin University professor, 14, 168, 178–81, 184–89, 201, 202, 203–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 221n, 228–32, 234, 236, 237, 241–42, 246–48, 259, 261–62, 271, 277, 280, 281–89, 301–6, 307, 315, 318, 356–59, 362, 363, 364, 381–83, 384, 387–89, 392, 394–95, 399–401, 403, 411, 471, 523, 601n
in Bermuda, 437, 479, 506
as Bern resident, 75–89, 124, 125–26, 141–55, 167, 184–88
as Bern University professor, 144–53
biographies of, 269–71, 465, 478, 498, 518, 601n, 639n
birth of, 11, 91–92
Bohr’s disputes with, 269, 324–26, 344–49, 496, 514–15, 539, 609n
brain of, 545–48, 640n busts of, 423, 436
in California, 263, 268, 315, 354–55, 368, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 384, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431
at Caltech, 315n, 368, 373, 374, 380–81, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431
Caputh cottage of, 357–60, 357, 361, 362, 387, 395, 397, 398, 399, 401, 405, 444, 447, 619n
Central America visited by, 364, 371–72
in Ceylon, 306
in Chicago, 374–75, 404–5
childhood of, 8–31, 67, 114, 180, 205, 385, 462, 483, 538, 548
in Cleveland, 300, 461–62
communism as viewed by, 287, 379–80, 399–401, 403, 420–21, 445–47, 478, 489–90, 494–503, 524–34, 550, 633n–34n
compass given to, 13, 67, 462, 538, 548
correspondence of, 1, 3, 39–47, 50–53, 93, 94, 97, 104, 106, 131, 135, 137–38, 143–44, 165, 170, 171, 174, 184, 355, 360–61, 405–6, 408–9, 411, 415–16, 417, 421–22; see also specific correspondents
correspondence of (Berlin), 184, 201, 202, 203–4, 205, 208, 209–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 227n, 230–32, 234, 237, 242, 259, 271, 277, 286, 307, 318, 362, 363, 38
1–83, 387–89, 392, 601n
correspondence of (Princeton), 430–31, 438, 441, 442, 467, 478, 482–83, 484, 500–501, 503, 513, 519–20, 524–29, 537, 539, 540, 636n
cremation of, 544, 545
in Cuba, 371
daily walks of, 438–39, 442–43, 509, 536–37
death of, 88, 94, 251, 445, 541–45
death threats against, 410–11, 422–23, 437
democracy supported by, 240, 242, 287, 420, 423–24, 479–80, 489–90, 499, 503–7, 537
economic views of, 370–71, 375, 380, 403, 504–5, 633n
education as viewed by, 6–7, 21–22, 26, 290, 292, 293, 299, 550
education of, 8–9, 15–49, 54–56, 60, 113, 115, 150–51, 565n
engineering background of, 23–24, 31, 53–54, 91, 113, 115, 126–27, 143–44, 161, 276–77, 304, 435, 443, 444, 517
English spoken by, 394, 402, 446, 464, 525
essays of, 208–9, 380, 479–80, 489–90, 497–98, 504
eyeballs of, 640n
fame and reputation of, 2, 5–6, 136, 140–42, 149, 151–52, 154, 163, 166, 168–69, 172, 175, 176–77, 196, 240, 247, 263–316, 339–44, 357–59, 363, 368–76, 396, 403, 426–30, 445, 472–73, 517, 520–23, 525–34, 540, 541, 544–45, 633n, 639n
as father, 75–76, 86–88, 143, 161–62, 174–75, 186, 187, 209–11, 215–16, 225–40, 243, 246, 274, 276–77, 301, 417–19
FBI file on, 287, 379, 399, 477–78, 500–503, 525, 534, 629n
FDR letter written by, 473–78, 484, 485, n–30n
FDR’s meeting with, 430–31, 493
fiftieth birthday of, 357–59, 362–63
film portrayal of, 491–93
financial situation of, 22–23, 32, 39, 72–73, 88–89, 162–63, 164, 179, 186, 187, 188, 204, 210, 215, 226, 228, 233, 234–36, 244, 275–76, 289–90, 297, 302, 306–7, 309, 316, 359, 397, 403, 465, 478–79, 607n, 639n
foreign tour of, 306–8, 309, 310, 315
France visited by, 301, 309, 311
free speech supported by, 479–80, 524–34
free will as viewed by, 387, 388, 391–93, 618n, 635n
French spoken by, 208, 301
friendships of, 12–13, 35–36, 61–62, 79–81, 85, 104, 137–39, 142, 143, 167–68, 184, 185, 206, 208, 222, 228, 231, 260, 269–71, 274–75, 286–87, 294–95, 305, 363, 364, 408, 421–22, 518–19, 536, 540, 542, 566n
generosity and kindness of, 5, 186, 187, 188, 210, 215, 226, 228, 234–36, 275–76, 302, 309, 316, 427–30, 438–41, 445, 516, 518–19, 607n
at Geneva Disarmament Conference, 377–78
German citizenship of, 23, 29, 58, 164, 405, 406
German culture as viewed by, 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 180, 205–9, 239–42, 275, 282–84, 401–3, 414, 447, 505–6, 542
German spoken by, 149, 297, 306, 431, 542–43
in Glasgow, 419
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