– large numbers hypothesis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n13
– magnetic monopole 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n5, 9n48
– many-times formulation of quantum electrodynamics by PD, Fock and Podolsky 1, 2n25
– neutron diffusion in matter, theory of 1, 2
– non-commutation in quantum mechanics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n11
– parity violation, foresees possibility of 1
– philosophy of physical science 1, 2, 3
– Poisson bracket in quantum mechanics 1
– positron, prediction of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n34
– principle of mathematical beauty 1, 2
– quantum electrodynamics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21n25
– quantum field theory, co-discovery see quantum electrodynamics 1
– quantum mechanics of heavy atoms 1
– quantum mechanics, later contributions 1, 2, 3
– Schrödinger equation (time dependent), independent discovery by PD 1
– sphere, quantum-relativistic treatment of 1, 2
– spinors 1
– string concept in quantum electrodynamics 1, 2
– transformation theory 1
– vacuum polarisation 1
– virtual states 1
THE ARTS, TASTE AND APPRECIATION OF
– art (visual) 1, 2, 3, 4,
– cinema 1, 2, 3
– comics and comic characters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n6, 11n5
– music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n15
– novels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
– poetry 1, 2, 3
– radio and television, appreciation of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
– theatre and opera 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
BOOKS
– General Theory of Relativity 1
– Principles of Quantum Mechanics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n49
Dirac, unofficial unit of frequency of speech 1
Dirac, Walla (PD’s paternal grandmother) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n16
‘Dirac stories’ 120, 1, 2, 3
DNA, double-helix structure of 1
Dneproges hydroelectric power station 1
Dobb, Maurice 1
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment 1
Douglas’ Works, Kingswood 1n16
Dublin 1
Dublin conference (1942) 1
Durango, Colorado 1
Duranty, Walter 1
Dutton, S. T.: Social Phases of Education in the School and the Home 1
Dyson, Freeman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n31, 7n11, 8n6, 9n13, 10n45
Eddington, Sir Arthur 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 mathematician and astronomer 1, 2
understanding of relativity theory 1
solar-eclipse experiments 1, 2, 3, 4
on Einstein’s E = mc2 equation 1
introduces PD to relativity 1
appearance 1
personality 1, 2
mathematical approach to science 1
and Rutherford 1
congratulates PD on his Ph.D. thesis 1
and the splitting of the atom 1
media savvy 1
pilloried by his younger colleagues 1
and nuclear energy 1, 2n60
disagreement with PD 1
Dublin conference (1942) 1
death 1
The Mathematical Theory of Relativity 1n20
The Nature of the Physical World 1
Space, Time and Gravitation 1
Edward VII, King 1
Ehrenfest, Paul 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Ehrenhaft, Felix 1n48
Einstein, Albert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18n20 personality 1
most successful spurt of creativity 1
appearance 1, 2
studies Mill’s System of Logic 1
E = mc2 equation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and Planck’s blackbody radiation spectrum formula 1
and solar eclipse results 1
light quanta idea 1
and Bohr 1
and Heisenberg’s theory of 1925 1
suspicious of the new quantum mechanics 1, 2
top-down approach to physics 1
on PD 1, 2
stimulated emission process and the laser 1
attacks Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle 1
differs from PD in his approach to science 1
praises PD’s textbook 1
at the 1930 Solvay Conference 1
despises Hitler 1
Nazis’ view of his ‘Jewish physics’ 1
and the photon 1
and the splitting of the atom 1
flees from Germany to the USA 1, 2
at Princeton 1, 2, 3, 4
and Kapitza’s detention 1, 2
dislike of quantum electrodynamics 1
treats Heisenberg with contempt 1
Hoover’s campaign against 1
suggests the existence of a positive electron 1
in search of generalisations 1
death 1
centenary of his birth 1, 2
‘Electron and General Relativity’ 1n34
see also relativity
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1
electrical charge 1, 2
electromagnetic interaction 1
electromagnetism 1 laws of 1, 2
Maxwell’s theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
PD’s magnetic monopole theory 1
electron-positron pairs 1, 2
electrons bare 1, 2
behaving as discrete particles 1
Cavendish annual dinner, toast to 1
describing behaviour of a single, isolated electron 1
diffraction by light 1, 2
Dirac equation 1, 2, 3
discovered by J. J. Thomson 1, 2
extended 1
moving in a straight line 1
negative-energy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
orbiting the nucleus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
particle-like 1, 2
Pauli’s exclusion principle 1
positive-energy 1, 2, 3
scattering 1, 2, 3
self-energy of 1, 2
spin of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
wave nature, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
see also Fermi-Dirac statistics
Eliot, T. S. 1, 2, 3
Elizabeth, Queen (later the Queen Mother) 1, 2n28
Elizabeth II, Queen 1, 2, 3
Elsasser, Walter 1
empiricism 1
energy quanta 1, 2
‘Erice Statement’ (1982) 1
Erice summer school, Sicily (1982) 1
Esperanto 1, 2, 3, 4
ether belief in 1, 2
PD’s ether 1
Euclid 1 Euclidean geometry 1, 2, 3
evolution, theory of 1
exclusion principle 1, 2, 3
Falklands War (1982) 1
Faraday, Michael 1, 2
Farm Hall, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire 1
Farmelo, Amelia (née Jones) 1
Faust, performance of special version (1932) 1
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n54
Fen, Elisaveta see Jackson, Lydia
Fermi, Enrico 1, 2, 3 radioactive decay of nuclei 1
quantum field theory of beta decay 1
and nuclear fission 1
builds first nuclear reactor 1
weak interaction 1
Nobel Prize 1
Fermi-Dirac statistics 1, 2, 3
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
(Fermilab) 1
Fermilab Symposium (1980) 1, 2n8
fermions 1
Feynman, Richard 1, 2, 3 at ‘The Future of Nuclear Science’ conference 1, 2
personality 1
new version of quantum mechanics 1
analyst and intuitionist 1
Wigner on 1
portrait of PD 1
says he is ‘no D
irac’ 1
Filton, Bristol 1, 2, 3
First World War 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Fisher family 1, 2
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1, 2, 3
Flexner, Abraham 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Florida State University 1 Physics Department 1, 2 n62
PD moves from Cambridge to 1, 2
treatment of PD 1
Keen Building 1
and PD’s funeral 1
Dirac Science Library 1
fluid mechanics 1
Fock, Vladimir 1, 2, 3n25
Folies Bergère 1, 2n5
Ford, Henry 1
Foreign Office 1, 2, 3
Fourier, Joseph 1
Fowler, Ralph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 PD’s supervisor at Cambridge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
and Rutherford 1
lectures on Bohr’s theory 1
works with Bohr 1
and PD’s paper ‘The Fundamental Equations of Quantum Mechanics’ 1
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1
PD’s visits to Copenhagen and Göttingen 1
co-edits the ‘International Series of
Monographs on Physics’ 1
failing health 1
death 1
Franck, James 1
Franco, General 1, 2
Frank, Anne 1
Frank, Sir Charles 1n9
Fraser, Peter 1, 2
Frayn, Michael: Copenhagen 1
French Circle 1
French Riviera 1
Frenkel, Yakov 1, 2
Friedmann, Alexander 1
Frisch, Otto 1, 2, 3
Frisch, Otto and Peierls, Rudolf: ‘Memorandum on the Properties of a Radioactive “Super-Bomb”’ 1
Frith, Uta 1
Frost, Robert 1
Fuchs, Klaus 1, 2
fundamental interactions, unified theory of 1
fundamental particles 1, 2, 3
‘Future of Nuclear Science’ conference (Graduate College, Princeton, 1946) 1
Gabor, Dennis 1n50
Galileo Galilei 1
Galsworthy, John: Forsyte Saga 1
Gamow, Barbara (née Perkins) 1, 2n2
Gamow, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14n13
Gamow, Lyubov Vokhminzeva (‘Rho’) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gandhi, Mahatma M.K. 1, 2
Gardiner, Margaret 1
Gaspra, Crimea 1
gauge invariance 1
gauge theory 1, 2n25
Gautier, Théophile 1, 2n42
Gebhard’s Hotel, Göttingen 1
Geiger counters 1
Gell-Mann, Murray 1, 2, 3n29, 4n30
General Strike (1926) 1, 2, 3
genetics 1, 2
Geneva, Switzerland 1, 2, 3
geometry differential 1n56
Euclidean 1, 2, 3
non-Euclidean 1
PD immersed in at Cambridge 1
projective 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Riemannian 1, 2, 3
George V, King 1, 2, 3
Gercke, Achim 1
Germany Youth Movement 1
the Depression in 1
new militarism in 1
Einstein flees to the US 1, 2
Hitler becomes Chancellor 1
book-burning ceremonies 1
annexes Austria 1
invades Czechoslovakia 1, 2
invades Poland 1
Britain declares war on 1
overwhelms Norway and Denmark 1
blitzkrieg on Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands 1
U-boat fleet 1
Germer, Lester 1, 2
Gill, Eric 1
Glacier National Park 1
gluons 1
Go (a.k.a. Wei Chi) 1, 2
Goddard, Peter 1
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Faust 1
Gog Magog Hills 1
Goldfinger (film) 1
Goldhaber, Maurice 1n67
Goldschmidt, Victor 1
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1
Gottfried, Kurt 1
Göttingen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 PD visits 1, 2, 3, 4
Mathematics Institute 1
anti-Semitism in 1, 2, 3, 4
Nazism in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
seething with political tensions 1
Heisenberg returns to 1
the Diracs and Kapitzas in 1
gramophone 1
Grand Canyon 1, 2
Grandin, Temple 1
Grant, Cary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Granta 1
Grassmann algebra 1, 2
Graves, Robert 1
gravitational waves 1
graviton 1, 2n33
gravity 1, 2, 3 and the general theory 1, 2, 3, 4
laws of 1
and Newton’s falling apple 1
and Riemann’s geometric ideas 1
and string theory 1
Great Britain, SS 1
Great Exhibition (1851) 1, 2
Greater Soviet Encyclopedia 1
Green, Michael 1
group theory 1n56
Groves, General Leslie 1
Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time 1
Hahn, Otto 1, 2
Halpern, Leopold 1, 2n18, 3n46, 4n45 born and raised in Austria 1
personality 1
friendship with PD 1
opposes surgery on PD’s tubercular kidney 1
fraught relationship with Manci 1, 2, 3
homoeopathic treatment of PD 1, 2
and PD’s funeral 1
satellite-based experimental programme 1
death 1
Hamilton, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hamiltonian 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Harding, Gardner L. 1
Hardy, G. H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Harish-Chandra (Harish Chandra Mehrotra) 1n35
Harish-Chandra, Lily 1, 2, 3, 4n34, 5n35, 6n35
Harvard University 1, 2, 3
Harz Mountains 1
Hassé, Ronald 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Hawking, Stephen 1, 2, 3, 4 n8
Hayward, F. H. 1
Heath, Edward 1, 2n51
Heaviside, Oliver 1, 2
Hebblethwaite, Cyril 1
Heckmann, Otto 1n5
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1n53
Heisenberg, Werner 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n8 personality 1, 2, 3, 4
addresses the Kapitza Club 1, 2n28
quantum theory (1925) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
non-commuting quantities 1, 2
and PD’s first paper on quantum mechanics 1
works with Born and Jordan at Göttingen 1, 2
and Schrödinger’s work on wave mechanics 1
uncertainty principle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
pianistic skills 1, 2, 3
and PD’s attack on religion 1
appointed full professor in Leipzig 1
and the Dirac equation 1, 2
visits Japan with PD 1
Soviet government’s attitude to his work 1
pleased at Hitler’s coming to power 1, 2
and the positron 1
atomic nucleus structure 1
Nobel Prize for physics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
celebrations in Copenhagen 1, 2
message to Born from the Nazi Government 1
a ‘White Jew’ 1
meeting with Bohr (1941) 1
attests to Betty’s non-Jewish status 1, 2n34
interned near Cambridge 1
explanation of his wartime conduct 1
PD supports 1, 2
quarrels with Pauli 1
at Lindau 1
interviewed with PD 1
appearance 1
death 1
Heisenberg-Pauli theory 1
Hellman, Bruce 1
Henri Poincaré Institute, Paris 1
Hess, Rudolf 1
Hessen, Boris 1, 2, 3
high-dimensional field theories 1, 2
high-energy particle accelerato
rs 1, 2
high-energy physics 1, 2
Highgate Cemetery, London 1
Hilbert, David 1
Hippodrome theatre, Bristol 1, 2, 3
Hiroshima, bombing of (1945) 1, 2
Histon, Cambridgeshire 1
Hitler, Adolf 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Hofer, Kurt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n18
Hoffman, Dustin 1
Holborn Registry Office, central London 1
Holcomb, Dorothy 1
hole theory 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21n7
Holiday Inn, Tallahassee 1
Holmes, Sherlock 1, 2, 3n7, see also 4
Holten, Beatrice (Flo’s sister) 1n16
Holten, Fred (Flo’s brother) 1
Holten, Nell (Flo’s sister) 1, 2, 3
Holten, Richard (PD’s maternal grandfather) 1, 2
Hong Kong 1
Hoover, Herbert 1
Hoover, J. Edgar 1, 2
Horizon (BBC programme) ‘Lindau’ 1, 2n28, 3n49, 4n11
Horthy, Admiral 1
Hotel Britannique, Brussels 1
Hotel Metropole, Moscow 1
Houmère, Pam 1
Housman, A.E. 1, 2
Hoyle, Fred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hubble, Edwin 1
Hubble’s law 1
Hungary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Huntingdon Road, Cambridge 1, 2
Huxley, Aldous: Point Counterpoint 1
Huxley, Thomas 1
hydrogen atom Bohr theory and 1, 2
Dirac equation and 1, 2
lamb-shift of 1
quantum mechanics and 1
hydrogen bomb 1
Immigration Act (1952) 1
Imperial Hotel, Bloomsbury, London 1
indefinite metric 1
India PD visits (1954) 1, 2, 3
becomes a nuclear power (1974) 1n36
Infeld, Leopold 1
Institut de Physiology Solvay au Parc
Léopold, Brussels 1n22
Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17n6
Institute for Physical Problems (Soviet Union) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Institute for Theoretical Physics (Niels Bohr Institute), University of Copenhagen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
International Congress on the History of Science and Technology, second (Science Museum, London, 1932) 1
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