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Gustav Adolf V, King of Sweden,
315

gyroscopes,
304

Haber, Clara,
185

Haber, Fritz,
174
,
181
,
184
,
185
,
186
,
203
,
205
–7,
228
,
281
–82,
291
–92,
406
,
408
–9,
413

Habicht, Conrad,
80
–81,
85
,
93
,
94
,
97
,
104
,
106
,
135
,
137
–38,
143
–44,
536

Habicht, Paul,
143
–44

habilitation
thesis,
144
–45,
149
–50

Hahn, Otto,
469
,
506

Haldane, Richard Burdon, Lord,
278
–79,
307

Haller, Friedrich,
74
,
78
–79

Halsman, Philippe,
487,
493
–94

Handel, George Frideric,
38

Harding, Warren G.,
295
–96

harmonic oscillators,
96

Hartle, James,
193
,
459

Harvard University,
298

Harvey, Thomas,
545
–48,
640
n

Hawking, Stephen,
251

Haydn, Franz Joseph,
426

heat:

conduction of,
48
,
67
–68,
70
–71

kinetic theory of,
104

radiation of,
96
,
576
n

Hebrew University,
290
,
292
,
293
,
301
,
306
,
409
,
412
–14,
522

Hedin, Sven,
311
–12

Heidelberg, University of,
42
–44

Heisenberg, Werner,
124
,
330
–33,
345
,
348
,
349
,
448
,
451
,
453
,
458
,
485
,
510

Helmholtz, Hermann von,
34
,
36
,
45
–46

Herschbach, Dudley,
6

Hertz, Heinrich,
25
,
36

Hertz, Paul,
208

Hibben, John,
298

Hilbert, David,
212
–22,
232

Hiller, Kurt,
378

Hindenburg, Paul von,
399

Hiroshima bombing (1945),
484
–85

Hitler, Adolf,
4
,
242
,
289
,
303
,
369
,
371
,
376
–77,
381
–82,
383
,
386
,
403
–5,
407
–8,
410
,
414
,
422
,
429
–30,
434
,
445
,
447
,
485
,
528

Hoffmann, Banesh,
22
,
134
,
335
,
442
,
464
,
468
,
512
,
514
,
586
n

“hole argument,”
201
,
n
–92
n

Hollywood,
263
,
268
,
372
–73,
374
,
491
–93

Holton, Gerald,
13
–14,
99
,
137
,
461
,
579n,
612
n
,
627n,
628
n

Hook, Sidney,
446
–47,
496
,
520
,
525

Hoover, J. Edgar,
287
,
477
–78,
501
,
503
,
525

Hopi Indians,
374

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
534

Howard, Don,
627
n
Howard, Henry,
343

Hubble, Edward,
353
–55

Hume, David,
20
,
81
–82,
113
,
125
,
166
,
169
,
334
,
349
,
350
,
460

Hurwitz, Adolf,
55
–56,
177
,
178
,
183
,
301

Huygens, Christiaan,
110

Hyades,
257

hydrodynamics,
101

hydrogen,
219
,
322

hydrogen bomb,
500
–501,
524
,
531

“I Am an American Day,”
507

I Am an American
series,
479

In Albert’s Shadow
(Popovic),
87

incompleteness theory,
509
–10

individual freedom,
433
,
445
–47,
478
–80,
503
–7,
524
–34,
537
,
550
,
637
n

“Induction and Deduction in Physics” (Einstein),
118

inertia,
80
,
107
–9,
118
–19,
131
,
146
–47,
190
,
199
–201,
251
–52,
318
–20,
468
,
548

inertia! reference system,
107
–9

inertio-gravitational field,
190

Infeld, Leopold,
263
,
267
,
274
,
463
–65,
524
–25

inferior parietal lobe,
547
–48

Institute for Advanced Study,
298
,
395
–98,
402
,
405
,
410
,
411
–12,
425
–26,
428
,
431
–32,
436
,
438
,
439,
442
–43,
450
,
453
,
464
,
466
,
468
–69,
480
,
508
–9,
514
–15,
532
,
536
,
537
,
541
,
622
n

Institute for Intellectual Cooperation,
381
–83

integral calculus,
16

interference patterns,
112
,
329

International Bureau of Weights and Measures,
312

International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation,
305
–6

Introduction to Maxwell’s Theory of Electricity
(Foppl),
36
–37,
115

invariances,
131
–32,
324

IQ,
13

Irvin, Rea,
266
–67

isolationism,
474
,
475

isotopes,
480
–81

Israel,
306
,
307
–8,
381
,
520
–23,
541
,
543

Janssen, Michel,
196
,
214
,
594
n

Japan,
306
–7,
309
,
310
,
315
,
339
,
379
,
393
,
481

Jaumann, Gustav,
163

Jefferson, Thomas,
389

Jeritza, Maria,
370

Jerome, Fred,
379
,
633
n

Jesus Christ,
386
,
434
,
567
n

Jewish Hospital (Brooklyn),
517

Jewish Legion,
293
–94

Jewish Orphans Organization,
363

Jewish Telegraph Agency,
414

Jews:

assimilation of,
205
–6,
280
–84,
291
,
302
–4,
386
,
408
–10,
428

Einstein’s identification with,
3
,
9
–10,
11
,
15
,
16
,
18
,
20
–21,
29
–30,
43
,
52
,
61
,
142
,
149
,
152
,
163
–64,
177
,
183
,
207
,
243
,
263
,
269
–71,
273
,
281
–308,
311
–12,
315
,
342
,
359
,
381
,
385
,
403
–10,
412
–14,
420
,
427
,
428
–30,
444
–45,
447
,
505
–6,
520
–23,
541
,
543
,
567
n

prejudice against,
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,
601
n

Zionist movement for,
281
–84,
289
–301,
302
–3,
306
,
307
–8,
376
,
381
,
409
,
412
–14,
520
–23,
526
,
541

Johnson, Paul,
277

Joyce, James,
3
,
280

Jupiter,
191

Kafka, Franz,
166

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics,
243

Kaluza, Theodor,
337
–38,
339
,
512

Kant, Immanuel,
20
,
82
–83,
166
,
207
,
238
,
244
,
370
,
574
n

Kaufman, Bruria,
537

Kaufman, Irving,
525

Kayser, Use Einstein,
172
,
207
,
228
,
243
–46,
248
,
393
,
404
,
433
,
441

Kayser, Rudolf,
248
,
404
,
433

Keller, Helen,
375

Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord,
90
,
575
n

Kepler, Johannes,
166
–67

Ketterle, Wolfgang,
329
n

Kindred, J.J.,
295

kinetic energy,
43
,
67
–72,
91
,
97
,
103
–4

Kirchhoff, Gustav,
36
,
49
,
50
,
94
–95

Klein, Oskar,
338
–39

Kleiner, Alfred,
71
–72,
101
,
150
,
151
–52

Koch, Caesar,
25

Koch, Julia,
50

Koch, Julius,
10
,
24

Konenkov, Sergei,
436
,
503

Konenkova, Margarita,
436
–37,
503
–4

Korean War,
525

Kreisler, Fritz,
426
–27

Krupp Foundation,
204

Ladenberg, Rudolf,
536

Lagrange, Joseph–Louis, Count,
593
n

Lake Como,
63
–64,
181
–82

Lake Lucerne,
229

Langevin, Paul,
170
–71,
327
,
411

Lania, Leo,
420
–21

Laplace, Pierre–Simon, Marquis de,
90
–91,
575
n

lasers,
5
,
323

Laski, Harold,
279

Lasky, Victor,
528

Laub, Jakob,
180

Laue, Max von,
141
–42,
267
,
269
,
286
,
406
,
409
,
466

Laurence, William,
467

League of Nations,
305
–6,
376
,
377
,
381
,
414

least action principle,
141
,
584
n

Lebach, Margarete,
362

Lehman, Herbert,
532

Leiden, University of,
168

Leiden Museum for the History of Science,
59

Lenard, Philipp,
43
,
65
,
96
–99,
105
,
207
,
285
–89,
303
,
304
,
311
–12,
314
–15,
407
,
409
–10

Letters from a Russian Prison
(Levine),
380

Levenson, Thomas,
275

Levi-Civita, Tullio,
195
,
197
,
212
,
215
,
589
n

Levine, Isaac Don,
380
,
446

Levy, Steven,
546

Lewis, Gilbert,
576
n

light:

absorption of,
96
,
100
,
169
,
314
,
322
,
324

bending of,
5
,
148
–49,
165
,
189
–92,
202
–5,
218
,
219
,
255
–62,
266
,
312
–13,
355
,
442

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