Genius

The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781453210437
• Topic: Tecnología e ingeniería
• Subtopic: Biografías de ciencia y tecnología

New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is "a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century" ( The New York Review of Books ). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation's greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman's work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps.

INDEX

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Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.), 182

absorber theory, see Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics

action, 59-61, 131-32, 226, 229, 247-48. See also least action, principle of Planck’s constant and, 71

action at a distance, 101-2, 128

Aldrich, Arnold, 419-20

algebra, 29-30, 33-34, 36, 183, 362, 401

Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 124

Alpert, Richard, 406

American Broadcasting Corporation, 378

American Museum of Natural History (New York), 25

American Physical Society, 53

meetings, 40, 117, 252, 270, 301, 354-55, 411-12

Ampère, Andrè-Marie, 320

analogy, 404

Anderson, Carl, 81, 253

anthropology, 287, 290

antigravity, 295, 407

antimatter, 7, 122, 253-54, 305, 334, 407

and time reversal, 82, 123, 258, 272-73

anti-Semitism, 23, 49, 53, 62, 84-85, 167, 233

Archimedes, 315

Aristotle, 359

Armstrong, Neil, 417, 423

Army, United States, 137, 182, 414-15

Feynman as consultant, 295

Los Alamos and, 161, 187, 192-93, 198-99

Oppenheimer and, 158-59

secrecy and, 166, 169

Ashkin, Julius, 192

Associated Press, 378

astrology, 373-74

athletics, 327-28

atom, 36-39, 58-59, 114. See also hydrogen; uranium

models of, 5, 71-72, 95, 99, 241-43

nucleus, 9, 79-80, 89-90, 130, 264, 307, 392

atomic bomb. See also Los Alamos

Bethe-Feynman formula, 6, 168

chain reaction, 161-63, 172-73, 197

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