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“uniqueness” argument, 213
United Jewish Appeal, 445
United Nations, 489, 496
Universal Studios, 374
universe:
alternative histories of, 459–60
Big Bang theory of, 355
dark energy in, 356
expansion of, 253, 353–56, 372, 510
galaxies of, 254, 353–56, 442
limits of, 252–54
metric of, 353–54
rotation of, 510–11
Untermyer, Samuel, 425
Uppsala, University of, 310–11
uranium, 469, 471–73
Urey, Harold, 526
Utrecht, University of, 175, 176
Vallentin, Antonina, 441
Vari ak, Vladimir, 185
Veblen, Oswald, 297–98, 397, 426
vectors, 194
velocity, 107–9, 114, 118–19, 127–31, 145, 148, 189, 192, 201
” Venona” secret cables, 633n
Versailles Treaty (1919), 303
Viennese Academy, 234
Viereck, George Sylvester, 385–87
Villa Carlotta, 64
Viollejules, 24, 25
viscosity, 102, 105
volume, 98, 101–3
Wagner, Richard, 11–12, 38
Waldorf Hotel, 375
Walker, Evan, 136
Walker Jimmy, 370
Wallace, Henry, 504
Walsh, David, 295
War Bonds, 482
Warburg, Emil, 174
War Resisters’ International, 414–17
War Resisters’ League, 375, 376, 400, 402, 499
Washington, George, 529
Washington Post, 295–96, 528
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 280
water waves, 92, 109–10
Walters, Leon, 402, 436, 441, 443
wavelengths, 65, 94–95, 97, 111, 322, 323, 331
wave mechanics, 329–30, 331, 347, 454–55, 456
wave theory, 1, 19, 24, 26, 34, 46, 47–48, 94–95, 97–98, 109–12, 119, 155–57, 170, 318, 323, 329, 578n
Weber, Heinrich, 25, 32, 33–34, 47–48, 55, 60–61, 115, 169, 177
weight and weightlessness, 145–46, 190
Weimar Republic, 284
Weinberg, Steven, 340–41, 356
Weisskopf, Victor, 407
Weizmann, Chaim, 290, 294, 295, 298–99, 300, 303, 381, 409, 413–14, 520
Wells, H.G., 132, 377
Wertheimer, Max, 116, 241–42
Wesleyan University, 343
Westmoreland, 424, 425–26
Weyl, Hermann, 298, 337, 339, 351
Weyland, Paul, 284–86, 287, 288–89
“What I Believe” (Einstein), 387, 391
“What Is the Theory of Relativity?” (Einstein), 267
Wheeler, John Archibald, 220, 251, 325, 469, 515
White, Theodore, 533