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Aydelotte, Frank, 480–81
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 29, 38, 420, 472
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, 566n
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, 604n
Berlin, Isaiah, 278
Berlin, University of, 14, 168, 178–81, 184–89, 201, 202, 203–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 227n, 228–32, 234, 236, 237, 241–42,
246–48, 249, 259, 261–62, 271, 277, 280, 281–89, 301–6, 307, 315, 318, 356–59, 362, 363, 364, 381–83, 384, 387–89, 392, 394–95, 399–
401, 403, 408, 411, 471, 523, 601n
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, 567n
Bernstein, Jeremy, 468, 576n
Besso, Anna Winteler, 27, 62, 231, 237, 418, 517, 540, 636n
Besso, Michele Angelo, 27, 61–62, 66, 83, 85, 101, 106, 113, 122, 126, 128, 136, 150, 151, 169, 170, 174, 184, 186, 190, 199, 200–201, 210,
211, 213, 215, 218, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230–31, 234, 237, 239, 277, 322, 323, 334, 341, 355, 417, 418, 517, 538, 540, 576n,
591n, 636n
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, 609n
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, 626n
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, 393, 408, 429
Born, Max, 95, 100, 106, 132, 223–24, 241–42, 253, 267, 268, 269–70, 274, 286, 287, 288, 324, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335, 392, 393, 408, 413,
429, 432, 442, 448, 450, 461, 463, 464, 519–20, 538, 539
Bose, Satyendra Nath, 327–29, 609n
Bose-Einstein condensation, 328–29, 609n