Einstein (138 page)

Bad Nauheim conference (1920),
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Baldwin, Roger,
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Balfour, Arthur,
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Ballets Russes,
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Balthazar
(Durrell),
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Bamberger, Louis,
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Baron-Cohen, Simon,
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Barrow, John,
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Baruch, Bernard,
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Beethoven, Ludwig van,
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Begin, Menachem,
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Beginning or the End, The,
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Belgian War Resisters’ Committee,
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Belgium,
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Bell, John Stewart,
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Ben-Gurion, David,
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Berkeley, George,
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Berks, Robert,
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Berlin, Isaiah,
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Berlin, University of,
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Berliner Tageblatt,
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Berlin Physical Society,
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Bern, University of,
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Bern Clock Tower,
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Bern Scientific Society,
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Bernstein, Aaron,
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Bernstein, Jeremy,
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Besso, Anna Winteler,
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Besso, Michele Angelo,
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Bethe, Hans,
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Bible,
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Bibo (Einstein’s parrot),
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Big Bang theory,
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Biology of War, The
(Nicolai),
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birth control,
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bivector fields,
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Bizet, Georges,
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blackbody radiation,
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black holes,
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Blackwood, Caroline,
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Blumenfeld, Kurt,
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Bohm, David,
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Bohr, Niels:

atomic model of,
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Einstein’s disputes with,
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at Institute for Advanced Study,
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in Manhattan Project,
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Nobel Prize awarded to,
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photograph of,
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quantum mechanics supported by,
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reputation of,
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Boltzmann, Ludwig,
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Bond, Horace,
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Bond, Julian,
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“border conditions,”
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Born, Hedwig,
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Born, Max,
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Bose, Satyendra Nath,
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Bose-Einstein condensation,
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Bose-Einstein statistics,
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Boston Globe,
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Boston Herald,
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Brahe, Tycho,
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Brahms, Johannes,
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Brandeis, Louis,
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Brandeis University,
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Breuer, Marcel,
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Briggs, Lyman,
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Brillouin, Marcel,
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British Association for the Advancement of Science,
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Brod, Max,
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Broglie, Louis de,
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Brown, Robert,
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Brownian motion,
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Brush, Steven,
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Bucky, Gustav,
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Bucky, Peter,
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Bucky, Thomas,
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Bush, Vannevar,
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Byland, Hans,
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Byrnes, James,
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calculus,
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
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Calvin, John,
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Cambridge University,
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Canova, Antonio,
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capillary effect,
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capitalism,
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Carmen
(Bizet),
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Cartan, Elie Joseph,
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Casablanca,
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Case Western University,
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cathode rays,
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Catholic Church,
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centrifugal force,
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cerebral cortex,
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,
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Chamberlain, Austen,
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Chambers, Whittaker,
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Chaplin, Charlie,
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chemical weapons,
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Chicago Daily Tribune,
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Chicago Herald and Examiner,
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Chicago Tribune,
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Chico (Einstein’s terrier),
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chlorine gas,
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Chopin, Frederic,
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Christian Science,
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Christoffel van de Hulst, Hendrik,
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Churchill, Winston,
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City Lights,
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civil rights movement,
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Civil War, U.S.,
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Cohen, I. Bernard,
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Cohn, Roy,
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cold war,
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Collier’s,
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Columbia University,
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communism,
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compasses,
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complementarity,
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Compton, Arthur,
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Compton, Karl,
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Concerto for Two Violins in D-minor (Bach),
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condensation,
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Congolese uranium exports,
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Congressional Record,
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constant velocity,
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Constitution, U.S.,
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contraction,
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Copenhagen interpretation,
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Copernicus, Nicolaus,
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Cordoba observatory,
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Cornell, Eric A.,
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cosmic rays,
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”Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity” (Einstein),
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cosmological constant,
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cosmology,
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Cousins, Norman,
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covariance,
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Cox, Charming,
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“Creation of the United States of Europe, The,”
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Critique of Pure Reason
(Kant),
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Crouch, Henry,
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Crowther, Bosley,
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Cupid and Psyche
(Canova),
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Curie, Marie,
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Dearborn Independent,
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death penalty,
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Debye, Peter,
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”Declaration of Protest,”
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decoherent histories,
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Delong, Adelaide,
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democracy,
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