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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,
566
n

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,
604
n

Berlin, Isaiah,
278

Berlin, University of,
14
,
168
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178
–81,
184
–89,
201
,
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387
–89,
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–401,
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471
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523
,
601
n

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,
567
n

Bernstein, Jeremy,
468
,
576
n

Besso, Anna Winteler,
27
,
62
,
231
,
237
,
418
,
517
,
540
,
636
n

Besso, Michele Angelo,
27
,
61
–62,
66
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576
n
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591
n
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636
n

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
,
609
n

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,
626
n

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
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393
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408
,
429

Born, Max,
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–24,
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–42,
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,
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–70,
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464
,
519
–20,
538
,
539

Bose, Satyendra Nath,
327
–29,
609
n

Bose-Einstein condensation,
328
–29,
609
n

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
,
575
n

Brod, Max,
166
–67

Broglie, Louis de,
326
–27,
330
,
345
,
347
,
538
–39,
583
n

Brown, Robert,
103
,
104

Brownian motion,
68
,
93
,
101
,
103
–6,
117
,
118
,
140
,
351
,
373
,
577
n

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),
315
n
,
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
,
633
n
–34
n

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,
626
n
–27
n

Copernicus, Nicolaus,
108
,
112
,
163
,
353

Cordoba observatory,
204

Cornell, Eric A.,
329
n

cosmic rays,
403
”Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity” (Einstein),
252
–53

cosmological constant,
254
–55,
353
–56,
372
,
613
n

cosmology,
223
–24,
248
,
249
–62,
265
–66,
353
–56,
372
,
442
,
510
–11,
613
n

Cousins, Norman,
495

covariance,
195
,
198
–202,
212
,
213
,
218
–22,
224
,
591
n
–92
n
,
594
n

Cox, Charming,
299
n

“Creation of the United States of Europe, The,”
207
–8

Critique of Pure Reason
(Kant),
20
,
574
n

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,
626
n
–27
n

Delong, Adelaide,
439
–40

democracy,
240
,
242
,
287
,
420
,
423
–24,
479
–80,
489
–90,
499
,
503
–7,
537

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