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see also
physics

Naturforscber conference
(1909),
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Navy, U.S.,
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Nazi Germany,
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–99,
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Nazism,
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939),
475

NBC,
402
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nebulae,
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“Negro Question, The” (Einstein),
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Neptune,
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Nernst, Walther,
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–7,
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Neumann, Betty,
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Neumann, John von,
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607
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–8
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neurons,
547

neutrons,
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472

Newark
Sunday Ledger,
429

“New Determination of Molecular Dimensions, A” (Einstein),
101
–3

New Fatherland League,
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–8,
242

New History Society,
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New Leader,
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New Scientist,
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Newsweek,
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491

Newton, Isaac:

“bucket experiment” of,
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calculus developed by,
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Einstein compared with,
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Einstein’s admiration for,
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gravitational laws of,
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Principia
of,
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New Yorker,
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New York
Evening Post,
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New York Herald’Tribune,
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NewYorkPost,
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New York Times,
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New York World Telegram,
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Nicolai, Georg Friedrich,
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–46,
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Night of the Long Knives,
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Nobel, Alfred,
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Nobel Prize,
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non-symmetrical tensors,
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Norden, Heinz,
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Norton, John D.,
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Novi Sad, Serbia,
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Novi Sad, University of,
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nuclear fission,
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nuclear weapons,
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Nüesch, Jacob,
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Oakland,
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Oberlaender Trust,
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Occam’s razor,
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O’Connell, William Henry,
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Office of Scientific Research and Development, U.S.,
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Olympia Academy,
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“On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light” (Einstein),
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“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein),
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–35

“On the Influence of Gravity on the Propagation of Light” (Einstein),
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–91,
256

“On the Investigation of the State of Ether in a Magnetic Field” (Einstein),
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“On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (Einstein),
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–53

“On the Molecular Theory of Heat” (Einstein),
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“On the Quantum Theorem of Sommerfeld and Epstein” (Einstein),
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“On the Quantum Theory of Radiation” (Einstein),
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Oppenheim, Shulamith,
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Oppenheimer, Frank,
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert,
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Oppenheimer, Kitty,
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optics,
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Oseen, Carl Wilhelm,
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osmosis,
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Ostwald, Wilhelm,
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“Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and a Theory of Gravitation” (
Entwurf
approach) (Einstein),
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Overbye, Dennis,
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Oxford University,
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pacifism,
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Pageant,
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Pais, Abraham,
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Panama Canal,
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Papen, Franz von,
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paradoxes,
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parietal cortex,
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particle (quantum) theory,
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Pasadena Civic Auditorium,
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Pasteur, Louis,
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Paterniti, Michael,
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Patterson, Cissy,
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Paul, Saint,
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Pauli, Wolfgang,
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Pauling, Linus,
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Peacock Inn,
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Pearl Harbor attack (1941),
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Pearson, Drew,
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Penrose, Boies,
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Penrose, Roger,
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People’s Books on Natural Science
(Bernstein),
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perihelion,
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Pernet Jean,
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Perse, Saint–John,
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Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich,
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Petersschule,
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Philadelphia Inquirer,
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Philadelphia Public Ledger,
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philosophy,
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–35,
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photoelectric effect,
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photographic diaphragm,
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photons,
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–24,
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Physical Review,
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physics:

absolutes in,
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–25,
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classical,
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deductive method for,
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experimental,
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