Einstein (153 page)

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
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–19,
127
–31,
145
,
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,
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201

” Venona” secret cables,
633
n

Versailles Treaty (1919),
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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,
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–96,
528

Waste Land, The
(Eliot),
280

water waves,
92
,
109
–10

Walters, Leon,
402
,
436
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441
,
443

wavelengths,
65
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94
–95,
97
,
111
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323
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331

wave mechanics,
329
–30,
331
,
347
,
454
–55,
456

wave theory,
1
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19
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24
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34
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47
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94
–95,
97
–98,
109
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119
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170
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318
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323
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329
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578
n

Weber, Heinrich,
25
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–34,
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–48,
55
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60
–61,
115
,
169
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177

weight and weightlessness,
145
–46,
190

Weimar Republic,
284

Weinberg, Steven,
340
–41,
356

Weisskopf, Victor,
407

Weizmann, Chaim,
290
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298
–99,
300
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381
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409
,
413
–14,
520

Wells, H.G.,
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377

Wertheimer, Max,
116
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241
–42

Wesleyan University,
343

Westmoreland,
424
,
425
–26

Weyl, Hermann,
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337
,
339
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351

Weyland, Paul,
284
–86,
287
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“What I Believe” (Einstein),
387
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“What Is the Theory of Relativity?” (Einstein),
267

Wheeler, John Archibald,
220
,
251
,
325
,
469
,
515

White, Theodore,
533

Whitehead, Alfred North,
261

“Why do They Hate the Jews?” (Einstein),
445

“Why Socialism?” (Einstein),
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Wieman, Carl E.,
329
n

Wien, Wilhelm,
48
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115
–16,
149
,
168
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310

Wigner, Eugene,
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Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany,
386

Williams, Charles,
526

Williams, John Sharp,
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Winteler, Anna,
27
,
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540
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636
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Winteler, Jost,
27
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38
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67
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240

Winteler, Maria Einstein “Maja,”
8,
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–18,
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n

Winteler, Marie,
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52

Winteler, Paul,
27
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n

Winteler, Rosa,
27

Wise, Stephen,
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436
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Witelson, Sandra,
547
–48

Woman Patriot Corporation,
399
–401,
420
,
477
–78

World Antiwar Congress (1932),
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world government,
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301
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,
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–500,
541
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631
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World Peace Council,
524
–25,
531

World War 1,
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–9,
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–40,
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–84,
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377
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408
,
539

World War II,
386
,
475
,
491
,
539

World Without Time
(Yourgrau),
511

World Zionist Organization,
290

Wright, Orville,
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/2

X-rays,
111
,
435

Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics,
144
,
145
,
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,
189

Yeshiva University,
636
/2

Young, Thomas,
329

Yourgrau, Palle,
511

Youth Peace Foundation,
376
,
404
–5

Ypres, Battle of,
206

Zackheim, Michele,
86
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88

Zangger, Heinrich,
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Zionism,
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Zürcher, Emil,
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Zurich, University of,
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–3,
150
–53,
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–63,
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Zurich Notebook,
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n
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n

Zurich Polytechnic,
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Walter Isaacson is the CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of
Time
magazine. He is the author of
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
and
Kissinger: A Biography,
and he is the coauthor with Evan Thomas of
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C.

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Private Collection: 5, 18, 22, 33,
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Courtesy of: The Albert Einstein Archives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: 6, 13, 16,
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© Bettmann/Corbis: 7, 10, 24,
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Besso Family, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives: 8

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Photo Deutsches Museum: 11, 20

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