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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, 593n
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, 575n
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, 584n
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, 589n
Levine, Isaac Don, 380, 446
Levy, Steven, 546
Lewis, Gilbert, 576n
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
dual (particle-wave) nature of, 97–98, 100, 155–57, 170, 321, 326–29, 539, 580n–81n, 583n, 586n
emission of, 94–96, 99–100, 119–20, 156, 204, 256, 259, 314, 322–24
ether as medium for, 92, 111–13, 115–16, 119, 317–20
frequencies of, 96–97, 99, 119, 314
interference patterns of, 112, 329
propagation of, 119–22, 190–91, 223, 317–20
quantum (particle) theory of, 1, 65, 93, 94–101, 105, 110, 120–22, 124, 140, 141–42, 144, 150, 155–57, 165, 168–71, 179, 190, 235,
255, 256, 286, 313–14, 318–20, 321, 326–33, 337n, 539, 580n–81n, 583n, 586n
radiation of, 1, 68, 92, 93, 94–101, 115, 141–42, 150, 155–57, 165, 322–24, 331, 576n
redshift of, IV) n, 148, 254, 311, 353–56
relativity and, 120–22, 124, 141–42, 190, 255, 256, 318–20, 321, 580n–81n, 583n
spectrum of, 93, 322, 331
speed of, 18–19, 47–48, 78, 105, 106, 110–12, 114, 116–17, 118, 119–22, 123, 126, 128–30, 132, 138, 139, 189, 250, 252, 267, 297,
319, 347, 468, 548, 578n, 579n–80n, 581n
split beams of, 47–48, 112
ultraviolet, 65, 111
in vacuum, 97, 99, lllw, 114, 157
wavelengths of, 9, 65, 94–95, 97, 111, 322, 323, 331
wave theory of, 1, 19, 24, 26, 34, 46, 47–48, 94–95, 97–98, 109–12, 119, 155–57, 170, 318, 323, 329, 578n
Lincoln University, 505
Lindbergh, Charles, 474–75
Lindemann, Frederick, 412, 418, 432
liquids:
molecular structure of, 2, 56–58, 68
temperature of, 105–6
viscosity of, 102, 105
Lloyd George, David, 419–20
local effects, 189–90, 583n
locality principle, 448–53, 454, 458, 461, 512, 626n
Lochner, Louis, 399–400
Locke, John, 81
Locker-Lampson, Oliver, 419–20 422–423
logic, 81–84