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INDEX<br />
Abraham, Max, 221, 592n<br />
Abrams, Henry, 640n<br />
acceleration, 108, 145–49, 155, 181–82, 188–92, 199, 201–2, 223, 319–20, 511, 548, 607n<br />
“action at a distance,” 319–20, 330, 346–47, 448–53, 454, 458<br />
Adler, Friedrich, 38–39, 150–51, 156, 158–59, 163, 240<br />
AEG, 302<br />
affine connection, 339, 344<br />
African-Americans, 445, 505, 531<br />
Agriculture Department, U.S., 443–44<br />
Albert I, King of Belgium, 415–16, 432<br />
Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 296<br />
Aleckovic, Mira, 87<br />
algebra, 17<br />
All Quiet on the Western Front, 372<br />
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 136<br />
“American Creed, The,” 530–31<br />
American Friends Service Committee, 445, 624n<br />
ammonia, 206<br />
AM radio signals, 111<br />
Analysis of the Sensations (Mach), 81<br />
analytic propositions, 82–83<br />
Anderson, Marian, 445<br />
Andromeda galaxy, 254, 353<br />
Annalen derPhysik, 57, 58, 70, 94, 102, 127, 138, 140, 190–91, 220<br />
Antigone (Sophocles), 81<br />
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–<br />
45, 469, 475, 505, 517, 524, 567n, 601n<br />
“Appeal to the Cultured World” (“Manifesto of the 93”) (1914), 206–7, 244<br />
Arabs, 381, 409, 520, 541<br />
Aristarchus, 518<br />
Aristotle, 5<br />
arms control, 487–95, 498, 500–501<br />
Army, U.S., 478<br />
Arrhenius, Svante, 310, 311, 312, 314<br />
Aspect, Alain, 458<br />
Associated Press, 355<br />
Association of Manhattan Project Scientists, 491<br />
astrology, 384<br />
astronomy, 5, 191, 202–5, 218, 253, 254–62, 267, 269, 275–76, 311, 316, 317, 353–56<br />
atheism, 386, 388–90, 462, 587n<br />
Atlantic, 489, 497<br />
atomic bomb, 5, 272, 382, 415, 469–76, 480–86, 489–90, 497–98, 500, 509, 525, n–32n<br />
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 531–32<br />
“Atomic War or Peace” (Einstein), 489–90, 497–98<br />
atomic weight, 57<br />
atoms:<br />
existence of, 2, 43, 56, 57, 70, 93, 94, 95, 101, 103, 104, 140, 164, 169, 255<br />
gas, 164, 323, 480–81<br />
momentum and position in, 323, 346, 348–49<br />
nucleus of, 322, 456<br />
splitting of (nuclear fission), 469–72<br />
structure of, 314, 321–22, 325, 345, 456<br />
subatomic particles of, 316, 322–33, 334, 345, 352, 353, 454, 459–60, 463–64, 512, 538, 625n, 627n<br />
Attempt at a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies (Lorentz), 116–17<br />
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 163–64<br />
autism, 566n<br />
Avogadro, Amedeo, 101–2<br />
Avogadro’s number, 101–3, 106
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