by Ray Monk
652. ‘Science and Culture’: Encounter, Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1962, 3–10, reprinted in Oppenheimer (1984), 123–38
652. ‘I went to midtown Manhattan’: Bernstein (2004), 196
653. ‘Let me end with an anecdote’: ‘The Added Cubit’, typescript, 6, JRO papers, LOC
653. ‘Readers and writers’: Encounter, August 1963, 47
653. ‘By taking thought’: ibid.
653. ‘a truth’: ibid., 46
654. ‘it is almost wholly through the arts’: ibid.
654. ‘He was out’: Regis (1989), 152
654. ‘Once in the 1950s’: Pais (2006), 278
654. ‘Bourbon Manor’: Regis (1989), 151
654. ‘source of profound bewilderment’: quoted Pais (2006), 278
654. ‘The faculty meetings’: ibid., 277
655. ‘It started to dawn’: Pais (1997), 385
655. ‘just about then’: ibid.
655. ‘He looked’: Seaborg (2001), 225
655. The decision was reported: Physics Today, June 1963, 21–3
656. ‘maintain intimacy of discussion’: Agnes Meyer, letter of invitation, 27.2.1963, quoted Thorpe (2006), 274
656. ‘Up to now’: untitled typescript of JRO’s talk at Seven Springs Farm, June 1963, JRO papers, LOC – quotation on page 5
657. ‘a recognition of’: ibid., 6
657. ‘is surely not’: ibid.
657. ‘I know every person’: quoted Wolverton (2008), 221
657. ‘this great enterprise’: typescript of JRO’s acceptance speech, undated, JRO papers, LOC
657. ‘I enjoyed what you had to say’: ‘Brotherly Spirit’, Newsweek, 16.12.1963, quoted Wolverton (2008), 222
657. special issue: Reviews of Modern Physics, 36 (2), April 1964
657. Robert Crease records: Pais (2006), 296
658. ‘Message’: Reviews of Modern Physics, 36 (2), April 1964, 509
658. ‘Massive Stars, Relativist Polytropes, and Gravitational Radiation’: ibid., 545–5
658. ‘It is a tribute’: ibid., 545
658. ‘was rushed down’: Dyson, letter to his parents, 25.4.1964, quoted Pais (2006), 296
658. ‘I am very pleased’: San Francisco Examiner, 24 April 1964, quoted Wolverton (2008), 226
658. ‘L’Intime et le Commun’: Oppenheimer (1984), 157–66
658. ‘when the proceedings were published’: ibid., 165
659. ‘We most of all should try’: ibid., 165–6
659. ‘Today we live’: ‘The Fraternal Dialogue’, Supplement to the bulletin From Heart to Heart, No. 15, November 1964, 2
660. ‘I begin to wonder’: Heinar Kipphardt, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: a play freely adapted, on the basis of the documents, London: Methuen (1967), 106
660. ‘You make me say things’: JRO to Heinar Kipphardt, 12.10.1964, JRO papers, LOC
661. ‘The whole damn thing’: Washington Post, 13.11.1964, A18, quoted Pais (2006), 268
661. ‘makes me say’: JRO, statement to the press, 11.11.1964, JRO papers, LOC, quoted Wolverton (2008), 237
661. When the play was performed in Paris: see Wolverton (2008), 238–9
661. ‘I have not been for this play’: JRO to John Roberts, 22.2.1965, quoted ibid., 240–1
661. ‘restrain the production’: ibid., 241
662. ‘The trouble with Oppenheimer’: see Serber (1998), 183–4
662. ‘the true story’: HC to JRO, 23.7.1964, JRO papers, LOC
662. ‘Dear Haakon’: JRO to HC, 7.8.1964, JRO papers, LOC
663. ‘Had letter from Chevalier’: notes of telephone conversation, 18.3.1965, JRO papers, LOC
663. ‘physics, of course’: New York Times, 25 April 1965, quoted Pais (2006), 297
663. ‘a general feeling’: New York Times Magazine, 15 May 1966, quoted Wolverton (2008), 271
663. ‘Well, I don’t want to speak for others’: typescript of interview with Martin Agronsky for CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, 5.8.1965, JRO papers, LOC
664. ‘Physics and Man’s Understanding’: Oppenheimer (1984), 181–9
664. ‘To Live with Ourselves’: ibid., 169–79
664. ‘the life of the scientist’: ibid., 170
664. ‘This was’: ibid., 170–1
664. ‘when the discovery’: ibid., 178
665. ‘[The] new discoveries which liberated physics’: ibid., 185
665. ‘The error which this corrected’: ibid.
665. a talk on Einstein: delivered at UNESCO House in Paris on 13 December1965, published as ‘On Albert Einstein’, New York Review of Books, 17 March 1966, 4–5, available online at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1966/mar/17/on-albert-einstein/?page=1
665. ‘his tradition’: ibid., 4
665. ‘clouds of myth’: ibid.
666. ‘was almost wholly without sophistication’: ibid., 5
666. ‘Thirty Years of Mesons’: Oppenheimer (1966)
666. ‘It seems to me’: ibid., 58
666. ‘You see the old man’: Pais (2006), 300
666. ‘finding out’: Dyson, letter to his parents, 30.3.1966, quoted Pais (2006), 301
667. ‘Dr Oppenheimer Plans History of Physics’: New York Times, 21 June 1966, 46, copy in JRO papers, LOC
667. ‘A Time in Need’: Oppenheimer (1984), 191–2
667. ‘no confidence’: Pais (2006), 303
667. ‘Sam, don’t smoke’: ibid., 304
667. ‘Poor Oppenheimer’: Dyson to his parents, 16.2.1967, quoted Pais (2006), 304–5
667. ‘He looked extremely thin’: B & S, 587
668. ‘I walked him’: ibid.
668. ‘It was a horrible period’: Pais (2006), 305
668. ‘The truth is’: ibid., 306
668. ‘Damn it’: ibid.
669. ‘a man who had’: ibid.
669. ‘In Oppenheimer’: Rabi et al. (1969), 8
Index
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Abelson, Phil 256, 264, 305
Acheson, Dean 475, 480, 485, 488, 500, 553, 556
and ‘Acheson–Lilienthal Plan’ 479, 481–2, 483, 484, 485
appoints Disarmament Panel 581, 582, 587
Ackroyd, Peter: T. S. Eliot 526
Addis, Thomas 236–7, 240, 281, 310
Adler, Felix 13–14
and Ethical Culture Society 1 3, 14, 20n, 21, 22–3, 24, 26, 27, 31, 200
publishes Creed and Deed 19–20, 23
conducts Seligman’s funeral service 15, and the Oppenheimers’ wedding service 19, 20
and ‘moral law’ 23, 28
on Americanisation of Jewish immigrants 28, 244
and World War I 31–2, 33, 272
Adler, Samuel 13
Advisory Committee on Uranium 263, 293, 294, 295
AEC see Atomic Energy Commission
Alamagordo: ‘Trinity’ test site 48n
ALAS see Association of Los Alamos Scientists
Albuquerque 42
La Glorieta 41, 46
Alien Registration Act (Smith Act) (1940) 275, 280
Allison, Helen (née Campbell) 147, 170
Allison, Samuel K. 147, 175, 295–6, 313, 438, 444, 557, 621, 658
alpha decay 178n
alpha particles 94n, 143, 177, 184, 189, 190, 215, 252–3
alpha radiation 95n, 177
Alsop, Joseph and Stewart: ‘We Accuse!’ 630, 633
Alvarez, Luis W.:
hears about nuclear fission 255–6
and RO’s reaction 256–7
his cyclotron results 266
leaves Berkeley 283
invents electric detonator 423, 424
and Hiroshima bomb 444, 447
sends letter to Japanese physicist 454–5
lobbies for crash programme to develop H-bomb 543–5, 548, 555, 5
56, 562
and RO’s attitude 548, 561
at RO’s hearing 605, 606, 616, 621, 626
American Hebrew (newspaper) 7, 53–4
American Institute of Physics 515
RO’s address 637–8
American Physical Society 126, 182, 209, 245, 248, 273, 274, 290, 492, 497, 512, 527, 575, 669
Anderson, Carl D.:
as RO’s student 172–3
and discovery of the positron 191–6, 205
researches cosmic rays 225, 227
finds new particle 228–9
at Caltech conference (1948) 516
Anderson, Herbert 331, 466, 473
Anderson, Sir John (later Lord Waverley) 399, 401
Anderson, Robert 8
Ann Arbor, Michigan
summer schools 149, 174, 177, 179, 185, 204, 211, 517–18
Annalen der Physik 107
anti-Semitism 7, 10–11, 12–13, 15–16, 17, 83, 88–9, 259
at Harvard 52, 53–7, 68, 88
Nazi Germany 123, 198, 214, 230–31, 244, 394
Armijo, Manuel 41, 49
Arneson, Gordon 553
Aron, Raymond 646
Asimov, Isaac: Races and People 59
Association of Los Alamos Scientists (ALAS) 463–5, 466, 467, 472, 476–8
Association of Oak Ridge Scientists 472, 473
Astors, the 9, 15, 17
atom, splitting the (Cockcroft and Walton) 187–90, 191, 193, 196, 252
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 493, 495
and FBI suspicions of RO 499–500
and Strauss 537–9, 556
and H-bomb programme 544, 545, 552–3, 555, 559, 562, 569
rejects idea of second laboratory 571, 572, 574
chaired by Strauss 592, 593–4
and renewal of RO’s contract 592, 593
and RO’s security hearing 601–2ff.
Seaborg as chairman 655
see also General Advisory Committee
Attlee, Clement 443, 482
Aydelotte, Frank 495
Baade, Walter 245, 246, 247
Bacher, Robert 329, 330, 331, 340, 356–7, 363, 368, 398, 410, 493, 495, 560, 561, 658
Bainbridge, Kenneth 294–5, 414, 426, 427, 428, 437–8, 557
Baltic, SS 141
barium 252–3, 254, 318
Barnard College, New York 18
Barnes, Joe 386
Barnett, Lincoln 540
Barnett, Shirley 425, 457–8
Baruch, Bernard 482, 483, 485
‘Baruch Plan’ 485, 490, 492
BBC: Reith Lectures (RO) 599–601, 604
Panorama 647
Beams, Jesse W. 309
Beaufort, Lady Margaret 92
Beck, Guido 244–5
Beecher, Henry Ward: ‘Gentile and Jew’ 12
Belmont, August 7
Benesch, A. A. 53–4
Berkeley, University of 148, 162, 165–9, 199, 248–9, 259
RO’s ‘school’ 165, 169–72, 174–5, 182, 186, 196, 204, 213, 268, 282–3
Radiation Laboratory (‘Rad Lab’) 169, 215–16, 225, 255–6, 264–6, 267, 303, 305, 307, 311, 312, 316, 341, 343, 346, 358, 364–7, 406, 537, 548
and CP 233, 238, 240, 270, 279, 281
and security 310–11, 367, 368, 373
and FBI 366, 384
Berlin, Gerald 221
Bern, Gregory C. 484
Bernfeld, Siegfried 359
Bernheim, Frederick 40, 41, 56–7, 58, 59, 60–61, 62, 63n, 73, 79, 80–81, 83, 91
RO to 460
Bernheim, Mary (née Hare) 91
Bernstein, Jeremy xii, 67, 80, 116n, 249, 292, 395, 538, 567, 604, 641–2, 652
Rabi to 479
Berolzheimer, Emil 21
beryllium 99, 184, 292, 330, 409
beta decay 177n, 178, 246n, 253, 257, 305, 639, 640
Fermi’s theory 228, 229, 230
beta radiation 177–8, 228
Bethe, Hans 214, 317
astrophysics research 248, 317, 492
works on nuclear fission 246
hears Bohr’s announcement on nuclear fission 255
meets RO 273
comes to Berkeley 316–17, 319, 322
disagrees with Teller’s calculations 320, 321
at Los Alamos 331, 333, 353, 354
and Feynman 348, 356, 512
fears Germany has new weapon 392
sees Bohr’s drawing of reactor 398
and implosion programme 416, 417
publishes paper with RO on electron scattering 491–2
surprised by RO’s anti-Soviet views 498
at Shelter Island Conference (1947) 501
excited by Schwinger’s theory 511–12
and Dyson 512, 517, 519, 522
praises Feynman’s theory 522
appalled by RO’s disloyalty to Peters 535
supports Frank Oppenheimer 537
and H-bomb programme 545, 547–8, 552, 555, 557, 558, 559–60, 566, 567
and Griggs 576
at RO’s hearing 614
awarded Fermi Prize 655
and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 658
speaks at RO’s memorial service 668
awarded Nobel Prize (1967) 317
on Fuchs 390
on Lawrence 265, 266–7
on RO 165, 273, 276, 404
on Rabi 334
Bethe, Rose 339
Bhabha, Homi J. 649
Bhagavad Gita 199, 200, 201, 203, 428, 439, 579, 647–8
Bier, Marcy 461
Bikini Atoll:
bomb tests 487–90, 608–9
Bird, K. and Sherwin, M.: American Prometheus x–xi, 387
Birge, Raymond T. 166–7, 168, 171, 182, 186, 210, 259
RO’s letters to 478, 496
Birkhoff, George 82–3
Aesthetic Measure 82
Birmingham, Stephen: Our Crowd 13, 17
Birmingham University 291, 293, 523
1948 conference 519
Black, Algernon 57, 58
‘black holes’ 249, 250–51, 283
Blackett, Constanza (née Bayon; ‘Pat’) 94
Blackett, Patrick (later Baron) 94, 95–6, 117
and Kapitza 100
photographs nuclear transformation process 94–5, 252
at Göttingen 95, 103
and RO 95, 96, 97, 100–1, 111
supports general strike 112
writes ‘The Craft of Experimental Physics’ 95–6
and discovery of the positron 192, 194–6
and Heisenberg 230
wins Nobel Prize (1948) 196
Blair, Clay see Shepley, James
Bloch, Felix 163, 214, 244, 257, 281, 319, 349
on RO 3
Blunt, Anthony 300, 390
Bock, Frederick 453
Bohm, David Joseph 312, 358, 366, 368, 375, 378, 383, 387–9, 532, 536, 611
Bohr, Aage 397 and n, 398, 400
Bohr, Niels 77, 88, 154
works with Rutherford 86
produces new model of atom 86–7, 95, 102, 104
becomes member of Royal Society 113
and RO 113–14, 148, 151, 153, 155, 162
and Einstein 116
announces ‘principle of complementarity’ 137–8
defends new quantum mechanics theory 139, 140
and Pauli’s work on beta radiation 178
sceptical about Dirac’s theory 193, and Lawrence’s results 207
discussions with RO at Caltech 206
sent RO’s reformulation of Dirac’s theory 209
and Frisch and Meitner’s paper on fission 253, 254–5
works out theory of fission with Wheeler 260–61, 263–4
refuses to keep fission research secret 262
convinced of impossibility of bomb 262, 393
under surveillance 393
meetings with Heisenberg and Jensen 393–4, 396–7
leaves Denmark for Britain 394–5, 399
/> at Los Alamos 397–9, 406
on ‘complementarity’ of atomic bombs 399–400, 480
has disappointing meeting with Churchill 400–1
Roosevelt sympathetic to his ideas 400, 401
at Institute for Advanced Study 507
visited by the Oppenheimers in Copenhagen 601
agrees to TV interview 633
70th birthday tribute from RO 637
and Chevalier 662
death 652
RO’s memoir of 652
RO’s lectures on 658, 661
Borden, William (Bill) 551–2, 553, 556, 572, 578, 586, 588
letter to Hoover 597–8, 601, 606
and RO’s hearing 608, 619
Born, Heidi 128
Born, Max 77, 95, 151, 159
and Blackett 95, 103
and Heisenberg 103, 105–6
and Schrödinger’s wave theory 107, 108
delivers paper at Kapitza Club 114–15
impressed by RO 114, 116, 324, 325
and Condon 125, 165, 167
with RO at Göttingen 117, 121–2, 124–5, 127–8, 130–31, 133–4, 135, 136–7
declines offer to work in US 141
at Como conference (1927) 138
at Solvay Congress (1927) 139–40
thrown out of Göttingen 198
at Cambridge 199
at Edinburgh 391
and RO’s 60th birthday tribute 657–8
articles:
‘On Quantum Mechanics II’ 106
‘On the Quantum Mechanics of Collisions of Atoms and Electrons’ 114–16, 121
‘On the Quantum Theory of Molecules’ (with RO) 133–5
‘Physical Aspects of Quantum Mechanics’ 116
Boyce, Joseph 188
Boyd, Julian 656
Boyd, William Clouser 58–9, 60–61, 63n, 73, 79, 80–81, 83, 144
Bradbury, Norris 404, 440, 487, 560, 570, 571, 614, 630
Bradley, General Omar 548
Brady, James 191
Brady, Mildred Edie 237
Brady, Robert A. 237
RO to 238
Bragg, William L. 130
Brahe, Tycho: De Nova Stella 246
Braithwaite, Richard 96
Bransten, Louise 308
Breit, Gregory 259, 285, 313–14, 316
Brickwedde, Ferdinand 183
Bridges, Calvin 236
Bridgman, Percy 77–8, 81, 83, 87, 88, 122, 132–3
Briggs, Lyman 293, 294, 295, 306, 307, 314
British Association for the Advancement of Science 116, 121
British University Mission 92
Brode, Bernice 283, 645
Brodeur, Arthur 240
Broglie, Louis de 102–4, 107, 115, 116, 138
Browder, Earl 243, 269, 308