Index
A
Abelson, Philip, 308 n.6, 317 nn.14, 15 ;
at Berkeley, 113 , 135 , 152 , 153 , 164 , 165 ;
and neptunium, 153 , 306 n.24, 308 n.6
Accademia dei Lincei, 8 , 61 , 119 , 239 , 253 , 279 , 289
Accelerators, 283 -84;
and antiparticles, 255 -59;
Berkeley bevatron, 256 , 316 n.9;
Berkeley cyclotron, 112 -14, 133 -36, 150 , 155 -64 passim, 171 , 229 ;
Berkeley synchrocyclotron, 229 , 249 ;
at Fermilab, 284 ;
Los Alamos cyclotron, 184 ;
and time assignments, 243 -44;
Washington University cyclotron, 209
Acque Albule, sulfur baths, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291
Aebersold, Paul, 135
Aeby, Jack, 189
Africa, 275 -77
Alikanian brothers, 263
Allegri, Natale, 16 -17
Allison, Sam K., 142 -43, 154 , 187 , 201 , 251
at Berkeley, 135 , 144 , 155 -56, 163 , 207 , 235 , 237 , 258 -59, 267 , 275 , 316 n.9;
at Los Alamos, 185 ;
memoirs, 297 ;
Nobel Prize, 185 ;
at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;
Soviet invitation to, 262
Alvaro, Altairante, 250
Amaldi, Edoardo, 28 , 120 , 149 , 289 ;
and CERN directorship, 275 ;
and Fermi's papers, 268 ;
German troops and, 195 ;
and military service, 55 , 60 ;
and neutron work, 89 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 245 ;
in New York, 112 ;
in Oslo, 68 ;
in Rome, 40 , 41 , 47 -52 passim, 61 , 63 , 83 -95 passim, 105 -6, 111 , 119 , 290 ;
and University of Palermo competition, 103 ;
in U.S., 144
Amaldi, Ginestra (Edoardo's wife), 90 , 92 , 93 , 95 , 120 , 258
Amaldi, Ugo (Edoardo's father), 41 , 288
Amaldi, Ugo (Edoardo's son), 93
American Chemical Society, 259
American College of Nuclear Physicians, 294
American Physical Society, 234 , 299
Amsterdam, 100 .
See also Zeeman lab
Ancona, Giacomo, 22 , 133 , 222 , 227 , 237 , 270
Anderson, C. D., 197 , 255 , 268
Andrea Doria , 280
Angeli-Rimini reaction of aldehydes, 4
Annual Review of Nuclear Science , 231 , 232
Antiparticles, 255 -59
Antiprotons, 243 , 255 -59, 260 -61, 269 -70, 273 , 274 , 316 n.9
Anti-Semitism: finances for victims of, 100 ;
Italian, 4 , 55 , 86 , 111 , 119 , 132 , 140 , 217 , 225 ;
of Lo Surdo, 55 ;
Manifesto della razza , 132 , 140 ;
Treyes family and, 10 ;
U.S., 102
Argentina, 250
Arizona, 294 -95
Armenia, 263
Artom, Camillo, 115
Artom, Eugenio, 225
Artom, Giuliana (cousin), 225
Astatine (element 85), 155 , 211 , 243 , 248
Aston, Francis, 117
Atombau und Spektrallinien (Sommerfeld), 68
Atomic bomb: Angelo on, 213 ;
Fermi's comments on, 252 ;
and Hiroshima, 209 ;
Los Alamos and, 176 -77, 179 -206;
See also Hydrogen bomb
Atomic Energy Act, U.S., 245
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S., 169 , 246 , 247 , 284
B
Bainbridge, Kenneth, 201
Baker, Nicholas. See Bohr, Niels
Bakker, Cornelius J., 66 , 90 , 120 , 275 ;
at Philips, 99 ;
at Zeeman's lab, 66 , 67 , 83 , 136
Balbo, Italo, 149
Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa, 276 -77
Barbella, Costantino, 17
Barresi, Ginetta, 110 , 141 , 149
Beck, Guido, 250
Benin, Oba of, 276
Berkeley, 206 ;
move from (1955), 253 ;
Piedmont Ave. house, 144 ;
settling in, 114 ;
Spruce Street house, 170 , 253 ;
visits, 112 -14, 128 , 131 -78.
See also Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley; University of California, Berkeley
Bernardini, Gilberto, 120 , 239 ;
book on elementary physics, 111 ;
and CERN directorship, 275 ;
at Columbia, 260 ;
at Cosmic Ray Lab, 233 ;
at University of Illinois, 239 ;
and University of Palermo competition, 103
Beta decay, 152 , 165 , 261 , 264 ;
Fermi and, 86 , 88 , 157 , 163 , 165
Bethe, Hans A., 280 ;
and accelerators, 135 ;
in Berkeley, 176 ;
at Cornell, 207 ;
at General Electric, 213 ;
and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;
Nobel Prize, 185 ;
at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;
in Rome, 63
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir, 282
Birge, Raymond T., 161 -62, 211 , 237 , 310 n.21;
and "peace" physics, 172 ;
and physics department staff, 208 , 209 , 210 , 234
Blackett, Patrick, 247
Bloch, Felix: in Berkeley, 144 , 146 ;
at Los Alamos, 185 , 187 , 193 ;
and neptunium, 152 ;
Nobel Prize, 185 ;
in Rome, 63
Bogoliubov, Nikolai, 263
Bohr, Aage, 193 -94
and Denmark, 122 -23, 194 , 268 ;
Heisenberg and, 122 -23;
Hevesy and, 116 ;
at Los Alamos, 193 -95;
Bonfante, Giuliano, 18
Boni, Giacomo, 40
Boole, George, 192
Bordoni, U., 41
Bozzolo, Italy, 3
Bray, W. C., 136
Bregman, Elizabeth, 285
British Mission, 192 -93
Brobeck, William, 158
Brode, Bernice, 133 , 142 , 193
Brode, Robert B., 133 , 142 -43, 172 , 187 , 193 , 233 -34, 235 , 237
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 220 , 240 -41, 247 , 284
C
Lafayette, 253 -54, 258 , 286 -87, 288 .
See also Berkeley
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 63 -64
Calutrons, 197 -98
Campetti, A., 103
Cannizzaro, Stanislao, 106
Careri, Giorgio, 290
Carlandi, Onorato, 17
Carrelli, Antonio, 103 , 107 -8, 126
Castelnuovo, Guido, 38 , 39 , 55
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 92 -93, 117
CERN, 290 ;
international scientific conference, 265
Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 282
Chadwick, James, 87 , 93 , 190 -91, 192 , 247
Chalmers, T. A., 150
Chamberlain, Owen, 242 , 260 , 261 ;
and antiprotons, 256 , 257 , 258 , 260 , 316 n.9;
at Berkeley, 172 -73, 176 , 227 , 229 -30, 231 , 256 , 258 , 283 ;
at Brookhaven, 247 ;
at Los Alamos, 178 , 185 , 189 ;
Soviet Union trip, 262
Chamisso, Adalbert von, "Schloss Boncourt," 254 -55, 315 n.5
Chemistry: Angeli-Rimini reaction of aldehydes, 4 ;
changes, 244 ;
at Donegani summer school, 279 -80;
Hofmann medal, 266 -67;
Nobel Prize, 259 -60.
See also Elements
Cherenkov, Pavel, 263
Chicago: Fermi in, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 , 251 -52;
Fermilab, 284 ;
Metallurgical Laboratory, 211 .
See also University of Chicago
Chromodynamics, 212
Churchill, W., 181
Cipolla, Michele, 106
Coefficient of aquaticity, 96
Cohnen, H., 65 -66
"Cold fusion," 299
Collegio Ghislieri fellowships, 4
Colombo, Umberto, 279 -80
Columbia University, 101 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264
Communist Party, U.S., 138 , 139 -40, 234
Competitions: Ferrara, 81 ;
Palermo physics chairs, 101 , 103 , 125 -26
Compton, A. H., 175 , 208 , 278 -79
Condon, E. U., 182
Congress, U.S., 245
Congress of History of Science, Tenth International, 281
Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (CNR), 89 , 125
Conversi, Marcello, 17
Cooksey, Carleton, 135
Cooksey, Don, 113 , 133 , 135 -36, 143 -44, 167 , 174 , 241
Copenhagen: Bohr Institute, 268 ;
conference, 122
Corbino, O. M., 38 , 43 -55 passim, 61 , 90 , 106 , 231 , 245 ;
and La Rosa, 100 ;
Rockefeller Foundation advisor, 63 ;
and slow neutron patent, 96 , 244
Corson, Dale, 155
Coryell, C. D., 317 n.14
Cosmic Ray Lab, Testa Grigia, 233
Coster, Dirk, 117
Crudeli, U., 103
Cuban missile crisis, 282
Curie, Marie, 88 , 102 , 115 , 309 n.7
Cyclotrons. See Accelerators
D
Dali, Gala, 274
Dali, Salvador, 273 -75
Daniels, F., 317 n.14
d'Annunzio, Gabriele, 17 , 18 , 25 , 57 , 76
Dante Alighieri, 1 , 37 , 104 , 131 , 293
Darrow, K. K., 45
DC amplifier, 133 -34
De Bono, Emilio, 98
Debye, Peter, 65
Defoe, D., 143
de Franchis, Michele, 106
Deutsch, Martin, 189
Dirac, P. A. M., 82 , 255 , 273
Disarmament conference, U.S.-USSR, 265
Dodson, Richard, 198
Don Nello del Raso, 36
Dumas, J. B., 20
Dunning, J. R., 102
Duruy, Victor, 20
E
Education: in childhood, 14 , 15 , 18 , 22 , 31 -32;
in engineering, 37 -38, 41 , 43 , 46 , 48 -49;
high school, 24 -26, 32 , 33 -34, 37 ;
in Judaism, 35 ;
in languages, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 34 ;
in mathematics, 22 , 26 , 38 , 39 -40, 41 , 46 , 52 -53;
in physics, 19 -20, 26 , 33 -34, 37 -56, 61 -63;
university, 37 -56
Ehrenfest, Paul, 63
Einstein, Albert, 35 -36, 46 , 272 , 273 , 278 , 292
Elements, 116 -17;
americium, 197 ;
astatine, 155 , 211 , 243 , 248 ;
beryllium, 157 ;
hafnium, 117 ;
neptunium, 152 -53, 165 , 306 n.24;
rhodium, 138 ;
thorium, 91 ;
uranium, 91 -92, 96 , 113 , 152 , 163 -67, 171 , 197 -98;
xenon, 153.
See also Plutonium; Technetium
Ellis, C. D., 87
Emo, Barbara, 226
Emo, Lorenzo, 113 , 132 -33, 271 , 280 , 292 ;
in Berkeley, 118 , 132 -33, 135 , 140 , 142 , 146 ;
Engineering: Brobeck and, 158 ;
education in, 37 -38, 41 , 43 , 46 , 48 -49
England: Cavendish Laboratory, 92 -93, 117 ;
Proceedings of the Royal Society , 62 , 93 ;
Royal Institution, 293 ;
visits, 67 -68, 78 , 92 -93, 293 .
See also London
English, S. G., 169
Enriques, Federigo, 111
Enriques, Giovanni, 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 65
Euler, Hans von, 122
Everest, George, 193
Experimental Nuclear Physics (Segrè), 232 , 262
F
Fanzolo villa, 225 -26
Faraday, M., 20 , 88 , 243 , 293
Farwell, George, 178 , 189 , 206
Fascism, 103 , 127 , 139 , 149 , 214 , 217 ;
Avanguardisti youth organization, 28 -29;
Giuseppe Segrè and, 29 , 84 , 85 ;
Italian consul in Germany and, 69 ;
of Lo Surdo, 55 -56;
Manifesto della razza , 132 , 140 ;
Palermo people against, 105 , 106 , 108 , 127 ;
Rockefeller Foundation and, 63 ;
See also Mussolini, Benito
FBI, 170
Feenberg, Eugene, 63
Fermi, Enrico, 28 , 79 , 146 , 194 , 231 , 261 , 273 ;
in Berkeley, 112 , 156 -57, 161 , 232 ;
and beta decay, 86 , 88 , 157 , 163 , 165 ;
biography, 268 ;
at Brookhaven, 247 ;
in Chicago, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 , 251 -52;
at Columbia, 167 ;
Compton and, 279 ;
death (1954), 252 -53;
Donegani Lectures, 239 ;
on Garwin, 240 ;
and hydrogen bomb, 238 , 251 ;
international physics conferences, 45 , 46 , 88 , 94 ;
Introduzione alla fisica atomica , 52 ;
in Italy, 41 -69 passim, 81 -95 passim, 118 , 119 , 251 ;
judging at competitions, 80 , 103 ;
letters of recommendation by, 278 ;
at Los Alamos, 126 -27, 182 , 183 , 185 , 187 , 191 , 197 , 198 , 202 , 203 -4, 232 ;
neutron work and patent, 88 -95 passim, 111 , 243 , 244 , 245 -46, 247 ;
in New Jersey, 162 -63;
and Nobel Prize, 151 , 259 -60;
Oppenheimer contrasted with, 138 , 139 ;
and Palermo chair of theoretical physics, 125 ;
papers published after death, 268 , 280 ;
and parity nonconservation, 265 ;
Seaborg contrasted with, 168 -69;
and Segrè's Berkeley position, 150 , 154 -55;
South American lecture tour, 92 ;
stomach cancer, 227 , 251 -52;
and uranium, 152
Fermi, Laura, 59 , 252 , 260 , 284 , 287 ;
Atoms in the Family , 252
Fermilab, 284
Fermi-Segrè formula, 81
Ferrari, Fabio, 301 n.4
Ferro-Luzzi, Giovanni, 39 , 40 , 44 , 85
Feynman, Richard P., 185
Finances: in Berkeley, 147 -48, 153 -54, 161 , 170 , 172 , 210 ;
for cyclotron, 135 ;
for displaced Jews, 100 ;
in Israel,
283 ;
Italian professors, 223 ;
Los Alamos earnings, 147 ;
after marriage, 108 ;
Nobel Prize, 272 -73;
patent, 247 ;
Physics Institute, 90 ;
Segrè family, 11 , 14 , 84 -86, 101 -2, 107 , 108 , 140 -49 passim, 170 , 216 -22;
after university, 57 , 65 , 69 , 85
Fink, G. A., 102
Finzi family, 19
Fission: discovery of, 151 -52, 245 , 265 , 299 ;
Florence, 30 .
See also Treves villa
Forbidden lines. See Quadrupole radiation
Foscolo, Ugo, 30
Fraenkel, Stanley, 176
France: family education in, 4 ;
Paris, 239 .
See also French language
Franchetti, Piero, 44
Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and Este, 2 , 10
Frascati Laboratory, 290
French language, 18 , 25 -26, 299
Friedländer, Gerhart, 169 , 176 , 317 n.14
Frisch, Otto, 69 -70, 87 , 192 , 193 , 305 n.13
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves (Segrè), 293 , 298
From X-Rays to Quarks (Segrè), 281 , 298
Frugoni, Prof., 22
Fuchs, Klaus, 193
Fulbright fellowship, 239
G
Garwin, Richard L., 240 , 265 , 278
Gentile, Giovanni, Jr., 50 , 111 , 125 -26
Gentile, Giovanni, Sr., 50 , 98 , 126
German Chemical Society, 266 -67
German language, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 299
Gino Segrè and, 8 ;
surrender, 199 .
See also Hamburg; Hitler, A.; Nazis
Giannini, G. M., 82 , 236 -37, 245
Giordani, Francesco, 239 , 289
Glashow, Sheldon, 234
Gofman, Jack, 169
Goldberger, Marvin, 235
Goldhaber, Maurice, 93
Gordon, William E., 70
Gordon Conference, 247 -48
Goudsmit, S. A., 272
Griggs, Helen, 169 -70
Grimod, M., 25 -26
Grosse, Aristide von, 306 n.24
Groves, Leslie R., 177 , 179 -80, 182 , 183 , 201 -2, 309 n.9
Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68
H
Haber, Fritz, 97
Hahn, Erwin, 240
Hahn, Otto, 91 , 151 , 152 , 267
Haissinsky, Moise, 102
Halford, Ralph, 150
Hamburg, 123 ;
romance in, 71 -78, 79 -80, 123 , 269 ;
Heisenberg, Werner, 46 , 122 -23, 229 , 273 , 309 n.7
Helmholz, Betty, 287
Helmholz, Carl, 287
Herskovits, M. J., 276
Hevesy, Georg von, 116 -17, 250 , 259 , 281
Hilberry, Norman, 175
History of science, 280 -81, 298
Hitchcock Lecturers, 156 , 193
Hitler, A., 92 , 132 , 177 , 200 ;
Americans and, 139 -40;
coming to power (January 1933), 78 ;
and immigration restrictions, 145 ;
Mussolini and, 92 , 127 -28, 132 ;
suicide, 199 .
See also Nazis
Hofmann medal, 266 -67
Holland: Josephy in, 100 ;
neutron conferences, 99 -100;
Philips Company, 99 -100, 245 ;
Zeeman lab, 65 , 66 -67, 78 -79, 99 , 128 , 136
Hughes, A. L., 209
See also Atomic bomb
Hypefine structure, 81 -82, 87
I
Ibadan University, Nigeria, 275
IBM, 240
Illinois. See University of Chicago; University of Illinois, Urbana
India, 282
Iran, 282 -83
Isomerism, nuclear, 137 -38, 150 -51, 243
Italy, 4 , 63 , 131 , 208 , 288 -89, 292 ;
Accademia dei Lincei, 8 , 61 , 119 , 239 , 253 , 279 , 289 ;
Acque Albule sulfur baths, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291 ;
anti-Semitism/racial laws, 4 , 55 , 86 , 111 , 119 , 132 , 140 , 217 , 225 ;
Civil Code, 7 ;
Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche, 90 , 125 ;
consuls in Germany from, 69 ;
military's diversity in, 60 ;
physics in, 38 , 46 , 49 , 119 ;
postwar visits, 195 , 213 , 221 , 222 -27, 232 -33;
stay in 1970s, 288 -92;
touring, 41 -45, 109 , 124 , 290 -91, 292 -93;
and U.S. visas, 128 -29;
visit in 1960s, 282 -83;
and World War II, 79 , 92 , 103 , 171 , 173 , 195 .
See also Fascism; Mussolini, Benito; individual cities and universities
Ivanenko, D. D., 263
J
Japan, World War II, 171 , 203 , 209
Japanese Americans, World War II, 173
Jaspers, Karl, 267
Jeffries, Carson D., 283
Jenkins, Francis A., 172 , 275 ;
in Berkeley, 133 , 142 -43, 150 , 210 , 233 -34, 235 , 249
Jenkins, Henriette, 133 , 142 , 143 , 144 , 249 , 275
Jentschke, W., 268 -69
Jews: brother Marco on, 28 ;
education in Judaism, 35 ;
finances for displaced, 100 ;
military leave for Yom Kippur, 59 ;
practicing/nonpracticing, 10 -11, 35 .
See also Anti-Semitism
Johnson, Lyndon, 284
Joliot-Curies, Frédéric and Irène, 88 -89, 91 , 152 , 239
Jungerman, John, 189
K
Kalbfell, David, 135
Kammerlingh Onnes, Heike, 2
Keats, John, 228
Kennedy, John F., 281
Kennedy, Joseph W., 317 nn. 14 , 15 ;
at Berkeley, 151 , 164 -76 passim;
at Los Alamos, 178 , 187 , 195 , 197 ;
and plutonium patent, 246 ;
stomach cancer, 247 ;
at Washington University, 208 , 209
Kerst, Donald, 187 , 239 , 259
King, Percival, 187
Kistiakowsky, George B., 197 , 281
Klein, Felix, 111
Knauer, F., 69
Konopinski, E. J., 176
Kristeller, P. O., 98
Kuhn, Thomas S., 280 -81
Kurie, Franz, 113
Kuroda, P. K., 308 n.11
L
Landau, E., 41
Landau, L. D., 263
Langsdorf, Alex, Jr., 137 , 153
Languages: education in, 15 , 18 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 34 ;
German, 15 , 25 -26, 32 , 33 , 299 ;
Lansdale, John, Jr., 174 -75
Lark-Horovitz, Karl, 160 -61
La Rosa, Michele, 100 -101, 105
Lattes, Dante, 35
Lawrence, Ernest O., 70 , 113 , 134 -35, 143 -73 passim, 209 -12 passim, 241 -42, 266 , 277 , 313 n.1;
and atomic weapons, 171 , 237 -38;
and bevatron, 256 ;
and calutrons, 197 ;
colitis, 266 ;
and DC amplifier, 133 ;
at disarmament conference, 265 -66;
and letters of recommendation, 278 ;
and loyalty oath, 235 ;
and Nobel Prize, 149 , 151 , 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;
and patents, 246 ;
and Physical Review articles, 137 -38, 170 ;
and Piccioni accusations, 257 ;
Seaborg contrasted with, 168 ;
sending radioactive substances, 112 ,
and Soviet Union trip, 261 -62
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), 267 , 283 -84
League of Nations, 109 , 182 , 204
Lederman, Leon, 265
Leininger, R., 211
Leitz, Fred, 169
Lenz, W., 70
Leone, Giovanni, 289
Leopardi, Giacomo, 24
Levi-Civita, Tullio, 38 -39, 54 , 63
Leyden, John, 18
Libby, Willard F., 150 -51, 317 n.14
Lignola, Marquis, 58
Livermore Lawrence Laboratory (LLL), 267
Lofgren, Edward, 256 , 316 n.9
Lombroso, Cesare, 194
London, Fritz, 63
London: international physics conference, 94 ;
parents in, 14 ;
Royal Institution, 293 ;
Loomis, Alfred, 167
Loomis, W. F., 239
Los Alamos, 173 , 177 -78, 179 -207, 230 , 275 ;
apartment, 186 -87;
earnings at, 147 ;
Fuller Lodge, 180 -81, 182 , 185 ;
Lansdale monitoring, 174 -75;
and loyalty oath, 236 ;
outings, 190 -92;
Pajarito, 186 ;
physical surroundings, 180 -81
"Los Alamos Primer," 182
Lo Surdo, Antonino, 52 , 53 -56, 64 , 119 , 173
Loyalty oath, 234 -36, 238 , 246
Luedemann, Hermann, 97 , 307 n.31
M
Macaluso, Damiano, 106
McCarthy, Joseph, 278 -79
McMahon Act (1946), U.S., 246
at Berkeley, 113 , 135 , 144 , 152 , 153 , 165 , 207 ;
at Los Alamos, 185 , 187 , 205 ;
and neptunium, 153 , 306 n.24, 308 n.6;
and Nobel Prize, 185 , 259 , 270 , 317 n.15;
phase stability discovery, 212 ;
Rad Lab director, 267 ;
Soviet invitation to, 262
Maggini, Signorina (teacher), 15 , 18 , 291
Maglic, Bogdan, 258 -59
Majorana, Ettore, 229 , 303 n.3;
disappearance, 126 -27;
and Feenberg, 63 ;
and Palermo chair, 125 -26;
in Rome, 39 -40, 46 , 49 -50, 51 , 71
Majorana, Luciano, 126
Mandò, Manlio, 110
Manhattan District, 177 , 179 -206, 208 , 246
Marshall, George, 203
Martinez, Maria, 187
Mathematics, education in, 22 , 26 , 38 , 39 -40, 41 , 46 , 52 -53
Matteotti, Giacomo, 29
Maxwell, James Clerk, Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism , 70
Mayer, Maria, 260
Medicine, nuclear, 293 -94
Meitner, Lise, 87 , 91 , 152 , 271 -72
Mesons, 283 ;
K, 264 ;
Metallurgical Laboratory, Chicago, 211
Methyl bromide, 159
Metropolis, Nicholas, 230
Mexicali, Mexico, 145 -46
Michigan. See University of Michigan
Military: and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;
Italian service, 26 , 28 , 54 -55, 57 -61, 121 ;
U.S., 177 , 179 -80, 182 -84, 189 , 200 , 202 -3, 232 , 238
Millman, S., 102
Mines Segrè, Rosa, 284 , 288 , 294 -95, 297 -300
Minkowski, Hermann, 70
Mitchell, D. P., 102 , 187 , 188
Moderation process, 95
Molecular beam work, 68 -71, 83 , 102 , 243
Moll Flanders (Defoe), 143
Montanelli, I., 240
Montecatini chemical company, 239 , 279 , 290
Moyer, Burton J., 36
Mulford, Dean & Mrs., 170
Mussolini, Benito, 46 , 92 , 121 , 127 -28, 132 , 171 , 195
N
Naples, wedding trip, 107 -8
National Bureau of Standards, 264
Amelia Segrè captured by, 23 , 195 , 214 ;
German romances and, 78 , 79 , 96 -97, 269 ;
and Luedemann, 307 n.31;
scientists and, 100 , 154 , 189 , 194 , 269 .
See also Hitler, A.
Neddermeyer, Seth, 197
Ne'eman, Yuval, 283
Nelson, Eldred, 176
Nepal, 282
Nernst, Walther, 38
Neutrons: antineutron, 258 , 316 n.9;
discovery of, 88 , 190 -91, 281 ;
Physics Institute work on, 88 -96, 243 ;
See also Nuclear physics
New England, 247 -48
New Mexico, 187 , 192 , 200 -202, 275.
See also Los Alamos
New York: Angelo in, 146 -47, 159 , 213 , 221 ;
Columbia University, 102 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264 ;
Riccardo Rimini in, 248 .
See also Brookhaven National Laboratory
Nigeria, 275 -77
Nikotin, I. P., 263
Nobel, Alfred, 265
Nobel Prizes, 154 , 165 , 265 , 269 , 272 , 281 , 317 n.15;
Alvafez, 185 ;
Bethe, 185 ;
Bloch, 185 ;
Fermi, 151 ;
Feynman, 185 ;
Jensen, 260 ;
Lawrence and, 149 , 151 , 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;
Lee, 265 ;
McMillan and, 185 , 259 , 270 , 317 n.15;
Mayer, 260 ;
Onnes, 2 ;
Rabi, 185 ;
Raman, 60 ;
Seaborg, 259 ;
Segrè, 185 , 221 -22, 241 , 259 , 261 , 265 , 269 -73, 317 n.15;
Siegbahns, 318 n.24;
Tamm, 263 ;
Yang, 265 ;
Zeeman, 66
Nobles, Bill, 189
Noddack, Walter K., 115 , 116 , 117 -18, 124
Noyes, A. A., 136
Nuclear explosion, 199 ;
predetonation, 185 ;
Nuclear isomerism, 137 -38, 150 -51, 243
Nuclear medicine, 293 -94
Nuclear physics, 162 -63, 231 -32, 245 ;
at Berkeley, 134 , 137 -38, 195 -96, 211 -12, 228 -31, 243 , 280 ;
at Chicago, 175 -76;
Experimental Nuclear Physics , 232 , 262 ;
Fermi's written lectures on, 252 ;
in Holland, 99 -100;
at Los Alamos, 179 -206;
in Rome, 290 ;
textbook on, 280 .
See also Accelerators; Elements; Fission; Neutrons; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley
See also Atomic bomb; Hydrogen bomb
Nuclei and Particles (Segrè), 280
Nucleon-nucleon interaction, 228 -30, 233 , 243 , 248
O
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 197 -98
Occhialini, Giuseppe, 292 -93
Oliphant, Marcus, 93
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 138 -39, 209 , 263 , 309 n.9;
at Berkeley, 113 , 137 -39, 156 -57, 174 -77 passim, 229 ;
and hydrogen bomb, 238 ;
at Los Alamos, 139 , 177 -203 passim
Orvieto, Angiolo, 11
Ovid, 25
P
apartment on Piazza Franceso Crispi, 119 -20, 253 ;
Elfriede leaving, 141 ;
Hotel Excelsior, 108 ;
Physics Institute, 105 -6, 110 , 268 ;
postwar, 268 ;
Rotary Club, 127 ;
University of, 101 , 103 , 104 -30, 208
Panofsky, Wolfgang, 235 , 241 , 260 , 262 , 265
Paper mill (family business), 9 -10, 14 ,
award ceremony for old employees, 269 ;
father's estate and, 84 -85, 215 -22, 225 ;
Marco and, 43 , 84 -85, 216 -21, 225 ;
Parini, Giuseppe, 207
Paris, 239
Parity nonconservation, 264 -65
Paschen, F., 65
Pasquali, Giorgio, 34
Patent: plutonium, 244 , 246 -47;
on slow neutrons, 96 , 244 -46, 247
Pauli, Wolfgang, 46 , 70 , 88 , 233
Peano, Giuseppe, 25
Pegram, G. B., 101 , 112 , 145 , 163 -64
Peierls, Rudolf, 63 , 192 , 247
Perlman, Isidor, 169
Perosi, Don Lorenzo, 127
Perrier, Carlo, 105 , 106 , 116 , 118 , 127 , 224
Persico, Enrico, 94 , 125 , 224 , 268
Peru, 250 -51
Philips Company, Eindhoven, 99 -100, 245
Phipps, T. E., 69
Physical Review , 87 , 137 -38, 150 -51, 166 , 170 , 257
American Physical Society, 234 , 299 ;
"without apparatus," 242 -43;
"battleship experiments," 242 -43, 258 ;
at Berkeley, 154 -55, 161 -62, 172 -73, 230 -31, 233 -36, 243 , 280 , 283 , 288 , 310 n.21;
book on nuclear and particle, 280 ;
education, 19 -20, 26 , 33 -34, 37 -56;
international conferences, 45 -46, 88 , 94 , 233 ;
molecular beam work, 68 -71, 83 , 243 ;
Moyer in, 36 ;
Nobel Prize prestige, 272 ;
Occhialini on, 293 ;
at Purdue, 160 -61;
quadrupole radiation, 64 -65, 67 , 68 , 83 -84, 243 ;
"swollen atoms"/ Rydberg states, 83 -84, 150 , 243 ;
teaching, 110 -11, 172 , 280 , 288 ;
weak interactions, 88 , 264 -65.
See also Antiparticles; Beta decay; Cyclotron; Nuclear physics; Quantum mechanics; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley
Physics Institute: Palermo, 105 -6, 110 , 268 ;
Rome (Via Panisperna), 46 , 48 , 55 , 59 -65 passim, 83 -96 passim, 10 -56, 119 , 223 , 309 n.7
Piazzi, Giuseppe, 106
Piccioni, Oreste, 248 , 258 , 316 n.9
Pittarelli, Professor, 38 , 40
Pius V, Pope, 4
Pius XI, Pope, 236
Placzek, George, 63 , 154 , 213 , 273
Plutonium, 163 -70, 175 -76, 185 , 196 -97, 243 ;
Pochettino, Alfredo, 80
Poincaré, Jules-Henri, 5
Poles: and Nazis, 189 ;
and U.S. visas, 128 -29
Polo, Marco, 18
Pontecorvo, Bruno: at General Electric, 213 ;
and neutron work, 94 , 95 , 245 , 246 ;
in Paris, 160 ;
and rhodium, 138 ;
in Soviet Union, 236 -37, 246 , 262 ;
Popovi, 187
Positron, 255
Powell, Wilson, 258
Proceedings of the Royal Society , 62 , 93
Pseudopotential, 84
Puccianti, Luigi, 80
Purdue University, 160 -61
P waves, 212
Q
Quadrupole radiation, 64 -65, 67 , 68 , 78 , 83 -84, 243
Quakers, 143
Quantum mechanics, 52 , 66 , 138
R
Rabi, I. I.: at Columbia, 102 ;
molecular beam work, 102 , 243 ;
Nobel Prize, 185 ;
at Oppenheimer hearings, 309 n.9;
Physical Review , 87
Racah, Giulio, 86 , 125 , 126 , 283
Racism. See Anti-Semitism
Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, 210 -11, 228 -30, 241 -43, 312 n.3;
administrative
work, 277 -78;
and antiparticles/antiprotons, 243 , 255 -59, 260 -61;
and Los Alamos project, 173 , 177 -78, 185 , 195 -96;
and loyalty oath, 235 ;
under McMillan, 267 ;
and patents, 246 ;
radioactive substances sent from, 113 -18 passim;
visit (1938-1943), 133 -38, 147 -78.
See also Accelerators; Lawrence, Ernest O.; Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Radiations from Radioactive Substances (Rutherford, Chadwick, & Ellis), 87
Radiciotti, 17
Radioactivity, 309 n.7;
accident, 177 ;
measurement, 133 -34;
nuclear isomerism and, 137 ;
Rad Lab sending substances, 113 -18 passim;
Seaborg and materials with, 211
Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata, 60
Raman effect, 60 , 61 , 63 , 64
Ramsey, Norman F., 102
Rasetti, Franco, 28 , 73 , 119 , 120 , 149 ;
and Fermi's papers, 268 , 280 ;
Germany trip, 79 ;
and Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68;
in Morocco, 88 ;
neutron work, 89 , 94 , 95 , 245 ;
in Oslo, 68 ;
in Rome, 43 -53 passim, 87 , 89 , 94 , 95 , 102 ;
and U.S., 63 -64, 81 , 102 -3, 114 , 129 , 133 , 145 , 159 , 294
Ravenna, Renzo (cousin), 149 , 224
Religion, 4 , 10 -11, 34 -36, 187 , 236
Rendiconti , 61
La ricerca scientifica , 90 -91, 95
Righi, Augusto, 106
Rimini, Ada, 33 , 99 , 149 , 214 , 222 , 223
Rimini, Bindo (second cousin), 4 , 32 -33, 85 , 98 -99, 108 ;
and Giuseppe's illness, 121 ;
and paper mill, 221 -22;
postwar visit with, 223 ;
Rimini, Enrico (cousin), 4 , 32 -33
Rimini, Riccardo (second cousin), 4 , 32 -33, 122 -23;
and Giuseppe's illness, 121 ;
in New York, 247 -48;
and romantic difficulties, 79 , 96 , 123 ;
and Rosa Mines, 284 ;
in Uruguay, 146 , 149 , 174 -75, 284
Rimini, Riccardo (uncle by marriage), 4
Rockefeller Foundation, 63 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 125 , 275 -76
Roesler Franz, Ettore, 17 , 302 n.7
Rome: Appian Way, 29 ;
childhood visits, 21 ;
Donegani Lectures, 239 ;
Guggenheim Fellowship, 267 -68;
move to Corso Vittorio (and high school), 5 -6, 22 -23, 24 -36, 253 ;
Physics Institute (Via Panisperna), 46 , 48 , 55 , 59 -65 passim, 83 -96 passim, 105 -6, 119 , 223 , 309 n.7;
postwar visits, 214 -15, 222 -27, 267 -68;
stay in 1970s, 288 -92;
Tivoli transport links, 14 ;
Uncle Claudio in, 5 -6, 21 , 23 , 28 ;
wedding in, 107 .
See also University of Rome
Roosevelt, F. D., 140 , 170 , 198 -99
Rose, Morris, 135
and antiprotons, 255 ;
at Cornell, 207 ;
at Los Alamos, 182 , 187 , 193 , 194 , 197 , 198
Rossi, Nora, 194
Rostagni, Antonio, 103
Rotary Club, Palermo, 127
Rotblat, Joseph, 189 , 312 n.7
Royal Society, 92 ;
Russia: czarist, 5 .
See also Soviet Union
Rutherford, Ernest, 87 , 92 , 124 ;
and Coulomb forces, 212 ;
at international physics conference, 46 ;
and natural radioactive isotopes, 309 n.7;
and neutron work, 92 ;
and Nobel Prize, 272 ;
Radiations from Radioactive Substances , 87 ;
Taylor and, 192 ;
and World War II, 100
Rydberg states/"Swollen atoms," 83 -84, 150 , 243
S
Salvini, Giorgio, 290
Santangelo, Mariano, 110
Sarton Lecturer, 281
Scaduto, G., 125
Scherbatskoy, Serge, 159 , 160 , 237
Schiff, Leonard, 138
Schiller, Friedrich von, 78 , 179 , 249 , 305 n.14
Schirbel, Peter, 97
Schnurmann, R., 69
Schrödinger, Erwin, 52
Science: history of, 280 -81, 298.
See also Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics
Scienza per tutti , 1 -2, 301 n.2
SCT. See Paper mill
S-D combinations, 64 -65
Seaborg, Glenn T., 163 -65, 168 -69, 299 , 317 n.14;
and americium, 197 ;
at Berkeley, 136 , 137 , 150 -51, 163 -70, 195 , 211 -12;
and Nobel Prize, 259 , 266 , 317 n.15;
and patents, 246 -47
Los Alamos, 183 -84, 190 , 193 , 208 ;
Segrè, Amelia Gertrude Allegra (daughter), 178 , 186 , 206 , 270 , 285 , 286 -87, 298
Segrè, Amelia Susanna Treves (mother), 3 , 20 , 22 , 31 , 141 -42, 171 ;
and automobile, 41 -42;
capture by Nazis, 23 , 195 , 214 , 215 ;
and Elfriede, 99 , 124 , 148 ;
and Emilio's German romances, 79 -80, 99 ;
family background, 11 -12;
and Fermi, 62 ;
and finances abroad, 86 ;
and granddaughter's birth, 178 ;
husband's illness, 121 -22;
last visit, 129 -30;
letters to and from U.S., 148 -49;
and Rome move, 23
Segrè, Angelo Marco (brother), 3 , 26 -27, 28 , 31 , 212 , 218 -19;
and finances, 84 , 146 -47, 213 -21 passim;
in New York, 146 -47, 159 , 213 , 221 ;
parents' problems with, 5 , 26 , 27 , 79 -80, 99 ;
science books left by, 33 ;
and Simili, 216 , 218 -19, 221
Segrè, Angelo Miracolo (grandfather), 3 , 4
Segre, Beniamino, 54 , 289 , 301 -2n.4
Segrè, Bice (aunt), 4
Segrè, Bice (cousin), 11
Segrè, Claudio (son), 123 , 124 , 128 , 129 ;
birth, 120 ;
children, 285 ;
in Indiana, 160 -61;
and Los Alamos, 186 , 187 , 206 ;
marriage, 285 ;
and mother's death, 286 -87;
Stockholm trip, 270 ;
on trip to U.S., 142 ;
and U.S. visa, 145 -46
Segrè, Claudio (uncle), 3 , 4 , 14 , 19 , 45 ;
on engineering degree, 48 ;
and Fascism, 29 ;
in Italian intelligentsia, 8 ;
legacy, 11 ;
and Nobel Prize, 271 ;
and physics, 20 ;
and sexuality, 30 -31
Segrè, Egle Cases (grandmother), 3 -4
Segrè, Egle (cousin), 11
Segrè, Elfriede Spiro (wife), 108 , 111 -12, 120 -30 passim, 173 ;
and Angelo's letters, 219 ;
in Berkeley, 112 -14, 140 -49 passim, 160 , 173 , 177 , 186 , 227 ;
birthday, 142 ;
courtship and marriage, 96 -99, 101 -2, 103 , 105 , 107 ;
death, 286 -88;
in Latin America, 249 -51, 284 ;
and letters from Emilio, 213 , 222 ;
and Los Alamos, 186 , 190 , 191 , 192 , 193 , 200 , 203 , 206 , 275 ;
as Luedemann's secretary, 97 , 307 n.31;
nickname, 144 -45;
and paper mill sale, 222 ;
and Rosa Mines, 284 ;
Segrè Chart, 190 ;
trip around globe, 282 ;
U.S. citizenship, 205 ;
and U.S. visa, 128 -29, 141 , 145
Segrè, Emilio Gino, 297 -300, 317 n.14;
cigars, 67 ;
death, 299 -300;
dress, 41 ;
Experimental Nuclear Physics , 232 , 262 ;
family background, 1 -12;
Fermi's papers and biography, 268 ;
fireworks in childhood, 18 ;
From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves , 293 , 298 ;
From X-Rays to Quarks , 281 , 298 ;
Fulbright fellowship, 239 ;
illnesses, 21 -22, 25 , 227 , 286 , 287 , 299 ;
marriage to Elfriede, 104 , 105 , 107 , 124 ;
marriage to Rosa, 288 ;
military service, 54 -55, 57 -61;
Nobel Prize, 185 , 221 -22, 241 , 259 , 261 , 265 , 269 -73, 317 n.15;
Nuclei and Particles , 280 ;
retirements, 283 , 288 , 290 , 291 -92, 298 ;
seventy-seventh birthday, 295 ;
sex and love before marriage, 30 -31, 37 , 42 , 51 , 71 -80, 96 -103 passim;
sports/recreation, 31 , 37 , 40 -45, 108 -9, 143 , 144 , 190 -91, 227 , 285 -86, 290 -91;
U.S. citizenship, 205 .
See also
Education; Finances; Physics; individual locales
Segrè, Fausta (cousin), 11 , 19 , 42 -43, 224
Segrè, Fausta Irene (daughter), 206 , 270 , 285 , 286 -87
Segrè, Francesca (granddaughter), 285
Segrè, Gino (grandson), 285 , 300
Segrè, Gino (uncle), 2 , 4 , 6 -8, 11 , 27 , 29 , 79
Segrè, Giuseppe Abramo (father), 3 , 4 , 8 -10, 20 , 22 , 141 -42, 171 , 215 -17;
cavaliere del lavoro , 225 ;
eightieth birthday, 146 ;
and Elfriede, 99 , 108 , 124 ;
and Emilio's German romances, 79 , 99 ;
escape from Nazis, 214 -15;
fastidi grassi , 240 ;
on Fermi's "crumbs," 62 ;
and financial gifts for Emilio, 11 , 84 -86, 108 , 119 -20, 127 ;
and financial problems with Angelo, 147 ;
illness, 121 -22;
last visit, 129 -30;
letters to and from U.S., 148 -49;
marriage, 12 ;
and Palermo lodgings, 108 ;
and paper mill, 9 -10, 14 , 22 , 43 , 84 , 98 , 215 -16;
and Rimini orphans, 33 ;
and Rome move, 22 -23;
tomb, 215 ;
Segrè, Joel (grandson), 285
Segrè, Katja Schall (sister-in-law), 27
Segrè, Marco Claudio (brother), 3 , 20 , 26 , 27 -28, 30 , 213 , 222 , 253 ;
cavaliere del lavoro , 225 ;
escape from Nazis, 214 -15;
father's illness, 121 ;
father's will and, 217 , 218 , 220 -21;
and paper mill, 43 , 84 -85, 216 -21, 225
Segrè, Rosa Mines (wife), 284 , 287 -88, 290 , 294 -95, 297 -300
Segrè Chart, 190
Serber, Robert, 176 , 182 , 187 , 235 , 273
Severi, Francesco, 38 , 39 -40, 54
Siegbahn, Kai Manne, 268 , 272 , 318 n.24
Siegbahn, Karl Manne George, 268 , 318 n.24
Simili, Silvestro, 216 , 217 -19, 221
Smithsonian Institution, 134
Smorodinsky, J. A., 263
Società cartiere tiburtine (SCT). See Paper mill
Solvay conference (1933), 88
Somigliana, Carlo, 80
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 63 , 68 , 99 -100
Soviet Union: atomic bomb, 214 , 237 , 238 ;
disarmament conference, 265 ;
Hitler and, 139 -40;
Josephy in, 100 ;
Pontecorvo in, 236 -37, 246 , 262 ;
scientists visiting Berkeley, 264
Specchia, O., 81
Special Engineering Detachment (SED), Los Alamos, 189 , 202 -3
Spectrography, 56 , 64 -65, 84 , 87 -88, 171 , 197 -98, 256
Spiess, Fred Noel, 278
Spiro, Elfriede. See Segrè, Elfriede Spiro
Spiro family, 97 , 99 , 127 , 149
Sproul, R. G., 247
Stalin, J., 139 -40
Stanford University, SLAC, 284
Stapp, Henry, 230
Stark effect, 55
Staub, Erika, 193
Staub, Hans It., 187 , 193 , 197 , 207
Stearns, Joyce C., 208
Steiner, Herbert, 264
Stern, Otto, 68 -72, 87 , 243 , 255 , 269 ;
Kuhn interviewing, 281 ;
and Lawrence's cyclotron, 112 ;
and Nobel Prize, 151
Stern Institute, 68 -72, 243 , 268 -69
Stoughton, Ray, 169
Strauss, Lewis, 314 n.20
Sugarman, N., 317 n.14
Sweden: king of, 270 ;
bank account, 86 , 140 , 142 ;
Basel conference, 233 ;
Cosmic Ray Lab, 233
"Swollen atoms"/Rydberg states, 83 -84, 150 , 243
Szilard, Leo, 92 , 132 , 150 , 180 , 203
T
Tacke-Noddack, Ida W., 91 , 115 , 116 , 117 -18, 124 , 306 n.24
Tamm, Igor, 229 , 262 -63, 265 -66
Tarchiani, Alberto, 208
Tasso, Torquato, 121
Tata (Austrian nanny), 14 -15, 33
Technetium (element 43), 116 -19, 124 , 127 , 243 , 308 n.12;
on father's tomb, 215 ;
isotopes, 116 -19, 128 , 293 -94, 308 n.11
Tel Aviv University, 283 , 298
Telegdi, Valentin, 265
Teller, Edward: in Berkeley, 176 ;
and hydrogen bomb, 237 -38, 251 ;
at Los Alamos, 187 , 191 , 193 ;
at Oppenheimer hearings, 251 , 309 n.9
Terkel, Amir (grandson), 285
Terkel, Joseph (son-in-law), 285 , 286
Terkel, Vivian (granddaughter), 285
Thomas, L. II., 135
Thomas-Fermi statistical method, 50
Thompson, Llewellyn, 214
Thompson, Stanley G., 169
Thomson, G. P., 250
Thomson, J. J., 68
Thornton, R. L., 135 , 144 , 209 , 237 , 241
Tieri, Laureto, 103
Tillman, J. R., 95
Tinkham, Michael, 234
Tisserand, Eugene, 214
Amelia Segrè street, 23 ;
contemporary, 14 , 253 , 291 ;
Elfriede and, 232 -33;
postwar visit, 223 -24;
sulfur baths near, 18 , 215 , 223 , 291 ;
vacations, 23 , 25 , 40 , 128 ;
Villa d'Este, 1 -2, 10 , 17 -18, 31 -32, 223 , 291 ;
Villini Arnaldi, Villino B Maria, 3 , 12 -14, 23 , 253 .
See also Paper mill
Todesco, G., 103
Tracer technique, 115
Transuranic elements, 91 -92
Treves, Amelia. See Segrè, Amelia Susanna Treyes (mother)
Treves, Elisa Orvieto (grandmother), 10
Treves, Emilia Finzi (aunt), 2 , 11
Treyes, Giuliana (cousin), 11
Treves, Guido (uncle), 11 -12, 29 , 224 , 225
Treves, Jacopo (uncle), 11 , 14
Treves, Marcella (cousin), 11 , 19 , 225
Treves, Marco (cousin), 11 , 33
Treves, Marco (grandfather), 10 , 302 n.5
Treves, Silvia (cousin), 11 , 19 , 225 , 302 n.5
Treves family, 10 -12, 302 n.5
Treves villa (Marignolle), 10 , 19 , 29 -30, 225 , 253
Trilussa (Carlo Alberto Salustri), 127 -28
Troccoli, Signor, 89
Truman, Harry S, 203
Tulsa, oil industry, 159 -60, 237
Tumedei, Cesare, 290
Turner, L. A., 163
Tuscany, 292 -93
U
Union of Producers and Distributors of Electric Energy (UNIPEDE), 298
United Nations, 204
United States, 213 , 247 , 288 , 292 ;
Atomic Energy Act, 245 ;
business and nuclear energy, 245 , 314 n.20;
disarmament conference, 265 ;
foreign aid, 283 ;
Information Service, 282 ;
McMahon Act (1946), 246 ;
and patents in nuclear power, 245 -47;
State Department, 281 ;
Supreme Court, 257 ;
visas, 128 -29, 141 , 145 -46;
visit (1933), 82 -83;
visit (1935), 101 -3;
visit (1936), 111 -14;
visit (1938-1943), 128 -29, 130 , 131 -78;
White House, 281 ;
in World War II 149 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 177 -78.
See also Military; individual states, cities, and universities
Universities: Columbia, 102 , 111 -12, 132 , 146 , 167 , 240 , 264 ;
Ibadan (Nigeria), 276 ;
Purdue, 160 -61;
Washington (St. Louis, Missouri), 165 , 208 , 209 .
See also University of . . .
University of California, Berkeley, 133 -78, 207 -84 passim;
administrative work, 277 -78;
Birge tribute, 310 n.21;
committees, 275 , 277 , 280 -81;
Faculty Research
Lecture, 275 ;
history of science, 280 -81, 298 ;
loyalty oath, 234 -36, 238 -39, 246 ;
Nobel Prize winners' privileges, 270 , 272 ;
and patents, 246 -47;
physics, 154 -55, 161 -62, 172 -73, 230 -31, 233 -36, 243 , 280 , 283 , 288 , 310 n.21;
Regents, 234 -35, 236 , 240 , 246 , 279 ;
retirement age, 288 ;
Russians visiting, 263 -64.
See also Nuclear Physics; Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley
University of Chicago, 208 , 209 ;
and anti-Semitism, 103 ;
Fermi at, 47 , 150 , 175 , 205 -13 passim, 239 , 248 ;
Fermi lectures, 287 ;
Fermi memorial service, 252 ;
Fermi papers, 260 ;
plutonium work, 175 -76;
Telegdi at, 265
University of Chicago Press, 253
University of Ferrara, 81
University of Illinois, Urbana, 239 , 242
University of Michigan, 82 -83, 101 , 112
University of Palermo, 100 -101, 102 , 104 -30;
chair of theoretical physics, 125 -26;
honorary degree, 268 ;
return offer, 208 ;
written examinations, 110 -11
University of Pavia, 4
University of Rome, 37 -56, 118 -19, 289 -90.
See also Physics Institute
Uruguay, 250 ;
Rimini cousins in, 146 , 148 , 174 , 221 , 250 , 284 ;
Rosa Mines in, 284
V
Vaccari, Lino, 17
Valle, C., 81
Vallery-Radot, Renè, 280
Verdi, G., 228
Villa d'Este, Tivoli, 1 -2, 10 , 17 -18, 31 -32, 223 , 291
Volterra, Vito, 11 , 52 -53, 54 , 63 , 115
von Neumann, John, 187 , 193 , 197
W
Wahl, Arthur C., 164 -67, 175 , 195 , 197 , 208 , 246 , 317 nn.14, 15
Warren, Earl, 234
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 164 , 208 , 209
Watson, Thomas, Jr., 240
Weak interactions, 88 , 264 -65
Weinberg, Steven, 234
Weinrich, Gabriel, 265
Weisskopf, Victor, 61 , 187 , 193
Weizsäcker, C. F. von, 137
Westcott, H. C., 93
Wheatstone, Charles, 293
Wick, Gian Carlo, 71 , 83 , 111 , 125 , 126 , 233 , 235
Wiegand, Clyde E., 242 , 260 , 261 , 270 , 316 n.9;
and antiprotons, 169 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 260 , 316 n.9;
at Berkeley, 157 , 172 , 176 , 206 , 211 , 227 , 230 , 248 , 256 , 258 , 259 , 283 ;
Williams, Wynn, 93
Wilson, Robert R., 135 , 188 , 284
Wolf Prize, 265
World War II, 180 -81, 207 , 222 -23;
atomic bomb, 176 -77, 179 -206, 209 ;
Bohr and, 193 -94;
"enemy aliens," 172 , 175 , 179 ;
events leading to, 79 , 92 , 103 , 132 , 139 -42;
Germany's surrender, 199 -200;
Japan's surrender, 203 ;
Pearl Harbor, 170 ;
U.S. in, 149 , 171 , 172 , 173 , 177 -78.
See also Hitler, A.
Wu, Chien-Shiung, 136 -37, 153 , 156 , 157 , 264 , 265
Y
York, Herbert F., 230
Ypsilantis, Tom, 230 , 248 , 256 -61 passim, 270 , 316 n.9
Yukawa, Hideki, 230
Z
Zacharias, J., 102
Zeeman, Pieter, 65 -70 passim, 84 , 99 , 293
Zeeman effect, 64 -68 passim, 83 -84, 150
Zeeman lab, 65 , 66 -67, 78 -79, 99 , 128 , 136
Zeitschrifi für Physik , 61 , 62 , 65
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