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Matthau, Walter, 13
Maxwell, James Clerk, 7, 34, 91–92, 97, 110–11, 114, 115, 118, 120, 121, 126, 138, 155–56, 157, 169, 170, 248, 336n–37n, 338, 340, 349, 350,
438
Maxwell equations, 115, 118, 120, 121, 138, 155–56, 157, 169, 170, 336n–37n, 338, 549, 578n, 581n
Mayer, Louis B., 491–92
Mayer, Walther, 358, 363, 368, 371, 397, 410, 411, 412, 423, 424, 450, 464
Meaning of Relativity, The (Einstein), 513, 577n
mechanics:
classical, 91, 92, 109, 113, 114, 127–28
laws of, 127–28
matrix, 331
quantum, see quantum mechanics statistical, 67–70, 98, 99, 101, 103–6, 167, 255, 327–29, 333, 341, 345, 347–48, 629n
wave, 329–30, 331, 347, 454–55, 456
Mechanics and Its Development (Mach), 81
Meitner, Lise, 407, 469
Mendel, Toni, 361
Mercury, 199, 212, 213, 218–19, 223, 224, 250, 311, 313, 593n–94n
Mermin, N. David, 459
metals, 68
metric tensors, 194–98, 200–201, 212–22, 254–55, 320, 340–41, 351, 352, 512–13, 590n–91n
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 491–93
Metropolitan Opera House, 295, 370
Meyer, Edgar, 239
Meyer, Menasseh, 306
Meyer-Schmid, Anna, 153–54
Michanowski, Ethel, 361–62
Michelmore, Peter, 88, 137
Michelson, Albert, 48, 112, 113, 115, 116–17, 297, 300, 354, 372, 579n–80n
microwaves, 111
Mie, Gustav, 592n
Miles, Sherman, 477–78
militarism, 4, 205–9, 240, 275, 371, 373, 375, 381–83, 414–17, 419–20, 488, 494, 498–99, 520
Milky Way, 254, 353
Miller, Arthur I., 116, 135, 280, 578n, 581n, 628n
Miller, Dayton, 300
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 100–101, 212, 315, 321, 373, 380–81, 395–98, 402, 403
Minkowski, Hermann, 35, 132–33, 193, 591n
Missa Solemnis (Beethoven), 536
modernism, 3, 277–80
Modern Times (Johnson), 277
molecules:
attraction of, 56–57
existence of, 43, 56, 67, 70, 103, 104
gas, 43, 56–57, 67–72, 91, 103, 156, 328–29
liquid, 2, 56–58, 68
motion of, 2, 68, 91, 93, 97, 101, 103–6, 117, 118, 140, 156, 223, 351, 373, 577n size of, 101–3
momentum, 323, 346, 348–49, 448–53, 459–60, 626n–27n
Monday Evening Club, 469
Monthly Review, 504
Mooney, Tom, 380, 381
moral relativism, 270, 277–80, 602n
Morgenthau, Henry, 430
Morley, Edward, 48, 112, 113, 115, 116–17, 297, 300, 579n
Moscow show trials, 446
Moszkowski, Alexander, 14, 127, 269–71, 601n
motion:
absolute, 320
Brownian, 68, 93, 101, 103–6, 117, 118, 140, 351, 373, 577n
laws of, 90–91
molecular, 2, 68, 91, 93, 97, 101, 103–6, 117, 118, 140, 156, 223, 351, 373, 577n
relative, 36, 93, 107–9, 127–31, 133, 134, 135, 145–46, 197, 199–201, 212, 213, 215, 220, 223, 318–20, 467
rotation and, 192, 199–201, 212, 213, 251–52, 318–20, 510–11, 593/2–94/2, 596n
spontaneous, 69–70
Mount Wilson Observatory, 353–55, 372
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 14, 29, 37–38, 177, 232, 272, 403, 415, 426, 430, 519
Murray, Gilbert, 305
Murrow, Edward R., 531–32, 534
Mussolini, Benito, 443, 517