einstein

classical, 90–92, 96, 99, 100, 101, 109, 113, 114, 125, 156, 169, 197, 277, 280, 312–13, 317, 322, 323, 324, 332, 333, 347, 461, 463
deductive method for, 116–18
experimental, 34–35, 47–48, 57, 161, 286, 310–11, 312, 314
“German,” 289, 315, 405–10
heuristic approach to, 94, 98, 155
historical development of, 33–34, 90–92
inductive method for, 116–18, 191, 350–52, 579n–81n
“Jewish,” 142, 269–71, 284–89, 311–12, 315
laws of, 17–19, 57, 69–70, 84, 90–91, 107–8, 193, 196–97, 216–17, 220, 223–24, 277, 278, 312–13, 386, 388, 510–11, 549–50
particle, 316, 326–27, 334, 345, 352, 353, 463–64, 512, 538
popular understanding of, 5–7, 18, 263–80, 355, 567n
scientific realism in, 169, 323–25, 333–35, 349, 350–53, 385, 450–51, 455, 460–65, 538–39, 6l2n, 627n, 628n, 635n
theoretical, 33–34, 35, 91–93, 99, 150, 152, 156, 161, 162, 175, 203, 212, 286, 310–11, 312, 314, 348, 407
unified conception of, 3, 4, 13–14, 67, 70–71, 148, 352, 550
see also quantum mechanics; relativity; unified field theory
“Physics and Reality” (Einstein), 462–63
Picasso, Pablo, 3, 5, 280
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 469
Pity of It All, The (Elon), 284
Planck, Max, 5, 32, 95–100, 132, 140–41, 149, 155, 156, 157, 160–61, 163, 168, 169, 170, 178–79, 203, 205, 206–7, 211, 232–33, 260, 267,
269, 288, 304, 310–11, 321, 322, 326, 327, 329, 330, 331, 344, 337, 339, 344, 406, 407–8, 409, 550, 549, 576n
Planck medal, 348
Planck’s constant (h), 95–96, 99, 155, 157, 327, 331
planetary orbits, 199, 212, 213, 218–19, 223, 224, 250, 311, 313, 593n–94n
Plesch, Janos, 357–58
Podolsky, Boris, 450–53, 456, 458, 459–60, n–26n
Poincaré, Henri, 81, 125, 133–34, 135, 168, 170, 176–77, 311, 330, 550, 569n–70n, 581n
Poland, 499
polonium, 171
Ponsonby, Arthur, 414–15, 417
Poor, Charles, 277–78
Popovi , Milan, 87
positivism, 82, 350, 460–61, 462, 609n, 627n
Postal and Telegraph Building (Bern), 77, 142
postulates, 118–22, 127–28, 134, 191, 252, 335, 347, 581n
potential energy, 584n
Prague, University of, 162–68, 173, 175–77, 192, 421, 482
“Present State of the Problem of
Specific Heats, The” (Einstein), 169–71
Princeton Country Day School, 440
Princeton Hospital, 545, 546, 547
Princeton University, 289, 297–98, 395, 399, 444–45
Principe Island, 257–58, 261
Principia (Newton), 125, 128, 199–201, 352
Principles of Human Knowledge (Berkeley), 350n
privatdozent appointments, 144–53
probability, 84, 255, 323–25, 328–29, 330, 332, 333–35, 338–39, 345, 347, 349, 353, 392, 454–56, 461, 462, 515, 626n–27n
Prolegomena (Kant), 238
Proust, Marcel, 280
Prussian Academy of Sciences, 100, 179, 203, 214–15, 218, 219–20, 250, 321, 343, 395, 398, 405–7, 408, 411
psi-functions, 457–58
Ptolemy, 518
Pueblo (Colorado) Star-Journal, 528
Pugwash Conferences, 541
Pythagoras, 194
Pythagorean theorem, 17, 195n
quantum mechanics, 320–35, 448–70
“action at a distance” in, 319–20, 330, 346–47, 448–53, 454, 458
Bohr’s contributions to, 324–26, 332–33, 344–49, 448, 451–52, 458, 468–69, 514–15, 626n
causality in, 345, 347, 460, 461
complementarity in, 452–53
Copenhagen interpretation of, 332–33, 347, 349, 424, 449, 453, 455, 457, 459–60, 626n–27n
decoherent histories in, 459–60, 626n–27n
Einstein’s contributions to, 3, 4, 5, 22, 94–101, 140, 144, 155–57, 168–71, 211, 234, 235, 238, 316, 321, 322–33, 608n
Einstein’s criticism of, 4, 7, 22, 84, 94, 157, 166, 298, 316, 317, 320–35, 344–53, 385, 421–22, 448–70, 514–15, 538, 609n, 625n–29n,
635n