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Feynman, Richard, 515, 584n
“Field Equations of Gravitation” (Einstein), 219–20
field theory, 13–14, 92, 94, 95, 317, 612n
of relativity, 159, 189, 197–98, 200–201, 212–24, 254–55, 336–37, 353, 468, 591n–92n, 594n
see also unified field theory
Fifth Amendment, 528, 530, 534
Fight against War, The, 405
Fine, Arthur, 627n
First Amendment, 527–28, 530
Fisch, Adolf, 160
Fitzgerald, George, 113, 116
fixed states, 455–56
Fizeau, Hippolyte, 112, 116, 117
“flatlanders,” 252–53
Flexner, Abraham, 395–98, 412, 425–26, 428–31, 453, 464, 480, 529, 622n
FM radio signals, 111
Foppl, August, 36–37, 115, 579n Ford, Henry, 289
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 370
“Foundations of Physics, The” (Hilbert), 219
Franck, James, 505–6
Frank, Philipp, 12, 20, 164, 166, 172, 177, 248, 271–72, 285, 332, 399, 410–11, 567n, 579n
Frankfurter, Felix, 298
Franklin, Benjamin, 311, 389
Franklin Institute, 624n
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 163
Frauenglass, Richard, 529
Frauenglass, William, 527–29, 530
frequencies:
light, 96–97, 99, 119, 314
sound, 119n
Freud, Sigmund, 3, 209, 284, 365–66, 377, 381–83, 386, 389, 614n–15n
Freundlich, Erwin Finlay, 191, 202–5, 213, 222, 233, 243, 267
Freundlich, Kathe, 277
Fried, Amos, 373
Friedman, Robert Marc, 310, 312
Frisch, Otto, 469
Frothingham, Mrs. Randolph, 399, 477, 502
Fuchs, Karl, 500, 501–2
Fuld, Caroline Bamberger, 395
Fulton, Robert, 476, 630n
galaxies, 254, 353–56, 442
Galileo, 5, 6, 80, 90, 91, 108–9, 117, 128–29, 145, 146, 251–52, 288, 550
Galison, Peter, 126, 569n–70n, 578n
gamma rays, 111
Gamow, George, 355–56, 481
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 438, 527
gases:
atomic structure of, 164, 323, 480–81
condensation of, 328–29
diffusion of, 223
molecular theory of, 43, 56–57, 67–72, 91, 97, 103–4, 156, 328–29
volume of, 98, 101–3
Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 193–94, 215, 253, 589n
Gedankenexperiment (thought experiments), 2, 3–4, 5, 26–27, 78, 79, 114, 121, 122–27, 138, 142, 145–46, 147, 190, 201, 267, 322, 345–46,
348–49, 448–60, 468, 512, 514, 583n
Gehrcke, Ernst, 285–86, 304, 311
Gell-Mann, Murray, 459–60
General Disarmament Conference (1932), 377–78
generators, electric, 91, 115
Geneva, University of, 154–55, 306
geodesic lines, 192
geometry:
Euclidean, 17, 19–20, 33, 37, 44, 63, 75, 83, 149, 192, 193–94, 209–10
non-Euclidean, 163, 192, 193–96, 253
propositions of, 83
of relativity, 192, 222, 337
German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, 282