einstein

nuclear weapons, 482–84, 487–95, 539, 541, 631n–32n
Nüesch, Jacob, 72, 73
Oakland, 401
Oberlaender Trust, 401–3
Occam’s razor, 549
O’Connell, William Henry, 388, 389
Office of Scientific Research and Development, U.S., 480
Olympia Academy, 79–84, 85, 93, 125, 131, 135, 143, 164, 274, 317, 462, 513, 536
“On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light” (Einstein), 94–101, 105
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein), 122–35
“On the Influence of Gravity on the Propagation of Light” (Einstein), 190–91, 256
“On the Investigation of the State of Ether in a Magnetic Field” (Einstein), 24–25
“On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (Einstein), 350–53
“On the Molecular Theory of Heat” (Einstein), 97
“On the Quantum Theorem of Sommerfeld and Epstein” (Einstein), 608n
“On the Quantum Theory of Radiation” (Einstein), 322–24
Oppenheim, Shulamith, 13
Oppenheimer, Frank, 531
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 251, 480, 488–89, 509, 524, 531–32, 534, 540, 631n, 638n
Oppenheimer, Kitty, 531
optics, 98, 114
Oseen, Carl Wilhelm, 313–14
osmosis, 480–81
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 59–60, 70, 310
“Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and a Theory of Gravitation” (Entwurf approach) (Einstein), 198–202, 204, 212, 213–14, 215, 216,
256, 591n, 592n, 594n
Overbye, Dennis, 13, 127, 216, 255, 459
Oxford University, 350–53, 361–62, 396–97, 410, 412, 418–20, 422–24, 431, 432, 549, 591n
pacifism, 4, 23, 58, 205–9, 212, 302, 305, 371, 373, 374–78, 381–83, 396, 399–401, 402, 403, 404–5, 414–17, 421, 483, 490, 498–99, 501,
521, 633n
Pageant, 505
Pais, Abraham, 106, 165, 218, 275, 297n, 466, 509, 514–15, 532, 619n
Panama Canal, 371
Papen, Franz von, 399
paradoxes, 114–15, 130
parietal cortex, 547–48
particle (quantum) theory, 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
Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 402–3
Pasteur, Louis, 423
Paterniti, Michael, 546, 640n
Patterson, Cissy, 615n
Paul, Saint, 343
Pauli, Wolfgang, 156, 267, 343–44, 345, 346, 451, 466, 538
Pauling, Linus, 171n, 486
Peacock Inn, 426
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 480
Pearson, Drew, 534
Penrose, Boies, 295
Penrose, Roger, 251, 581n
People’s Books on Natural Science (Bernstein), 18–19, 567n
perihelion, 199, 212, 213, 218–19, 223, 224, 250, 311, 313, 593n–94n
Pernet Jean, 34–35, 54–55
Perse, Saint–John, 549
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 26
Petersschule, 15–16
Philadelphia Inquirer, 528
Philadelphia Public Ledger, 293
philosophy, 20, 52–53, 79–84, 113, 164, 166, 238, 334–35, 387, 388–89, 391, 460–61, 518, 627n
photoelectric effect, 65, 96–101, 105, 207, 235, 286, 309, 313–15, 327, 344, 351, 373
photographic diaphragm, 435
photons, 94, 99, 101, 322–24, 326–33, 349, 459, 466, 576n
Physical Review, 624n
physics:
absolutes in, 2, 37, 82, 84, 111, 124–25, 128, 169, 200, 223, 266, 277, 288, 320, 333, 460