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  Townes, Charles, How the Laser Happened: Adventures of a Scientist, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999

  Toynbee, Arnold, Acquaintances, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967

  Vallentin, Antonina, Einstein: A Biography, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1954

  Warwick, Andrew, Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003

  Weinberg, Steven, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, London: Hutchinson Radius, 1993

  Weisgal, Meyer W., and Joel Carmichael, eds, Chaim Weizmann: A Biography by Several Hands, New York: Atheneum, 1962

  Whitaker, Andrew, Einstein, Bohr and the Quantum Dilemma, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996

  White, Peregrine, ‘Albert Einstein: The Violinist’, Physics Teacher, 43, May 2005: 286–8

  Whitrow, G. J., ed., Einstein: The Man and His Achievement, New York: Dover, 1967

  Winterbotham, F. W., The Nazi Connection, New York: Harper & Row, 1978

  World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag, London: Victor Gollancz, 1933

  Index

  Aarau (Switzerland) (i)

  Academic Assistance Council (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Action Française (journal) (i)

  Adams, Walter (i), (ii)

  Albert Hall (London, UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  Albright, William F. (i)

  All Souls College (Oxford, UK) (i)

  Allen, Carleton (i)

  America see USA

  Anderson, John George Clark (i)

  anti-relativity movement (Germany) (i), (ii), (iii)

  anti-Semitism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Anti-War Movement (i)

  Antwerp (Belgium) (i), (ii)

  Argentina (i), (ii)

  Arianrhod, Robyn (i)

  Aristotle (i), (ii), (iii)

  Arnold, C. H. (i)

  Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK) (i)

  atomic bomb (i), (ii)

  atomic theory (of Einstein) (i)

  Auschwitz (Poland) (i)

  Austro-Hungarian Empire (i)

  Bach, Johann Sebastian (i)

  Balfour, A. J. (i), (ii)

  Balfour Declaration (1920) (i)

  Ball, Philip (i)

  Balsam, Artur (i)

  Barker, Ernest (i), (ii)

  ‘Beachcomber’ (columnist in Daily Express) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Beer, Gavin de (i)

  Beethoven, Ludwig van (i), (ii), (iii)

  Belgium (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Einstein in (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Belsen (Germany) (i)

  Bentwich, Helen (i), (ii)

  Bentwich, Norman (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bergmann, Hugo (i)

  Bergson, Henri (i)

  Berlin, Isaiah (i), (ii)

  Berlin (Germany) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)

  Einstein in (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv)

  Berlin, University of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Berlin Goethe League (i)

  Berliner Tageblatt (newspaper) (i)

  Bern (Switzerland) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Besso, Michele (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Bethe, Hans (i)

  Beveridge, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Bevin, Ernest (i), (ii)

  Big Bang theory (i)

  Blackshirts (UK) (i)

  Blake, Robert (i)

  Block, Herbert Lawrence (i)

  Blue Shirts (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Blumenfeld, Kurt (i)

  Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK) (i)

  Bohr, Niels (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  Bolshevism (i)

  Bolton, Lyndon (i)

  Boltzmann, Ludwig (i)

  Bonaparte, Napoleon (i), (ii)

  Born, Hedwig (i)

  Born, Max

  and Britain (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  career (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jewishness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and Nazism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  personality (i), (ii)

  physics (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  politics (i), (ii), (iii)

  Born–Einstein Letters, The (i)

  Bose, Satyendra Nath (i)

  Bose–Einstein statistics (i)

  Bowen, Edmund (i)

  Brahms, Johannes (i), (ii), (iii)

  Brasenose College (Oxford, UK) (i)

  Bridgman, Percy (i)

  British Museum (London, UK) (i)

  British Patent Office (i)

  British Union of Fascists (i)

  Brockway, A. Fenner (i)

  Broglie, Louis de (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Bronowski, Jacob (i)

  Brooklyn Eagle (newspaper) (i)

  Brose, Henry (i), (ii)

  Brown, Robert (i)

  Brownian movement (i), (ii)

  Brownshirts (Germany) (i), (ii)

  Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, The (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Brüning, Heinrich (i)

  Brussels (Belgium) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Buchwald, Diana Kormos (i), (ii)

  Burnett, W. G. E. (i)

  Busch, Adolf (i), (ii)

  Caesar, Julius (i)

  Calaprice, Alice (i)

  California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Cambridge, University of (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv)

  Canada (i)

  Canterbury, Archbishop of see Davidson, Randall

  Caputh (Germany) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Carroll, Lewis (i), (ii)

  Cavendish Laboratory (Cambridge, UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ceylon (i)

  Chamberlain, Austen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Chamberlain, Neville (i)

  Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (i)

  Chaplin, Charlie (i), (ii)

  Chapman, R. W. (i)

  Chartwell (UK) (i)

  Christ Church (Oxford, UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii)

  Churchill, Winston (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  City University of New York (USA) (i)

  Clarendon Laboratory (Oxford, UK) (i), (ii)

  Clark, Ronald (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Cohen, I. Bernard (i)

  Cold War (i), (ii), (iii)

  Collège de France (Paris) (i), (ii)

  Colman, Philip (i), (ii)

  Columbus, Christopher (i)

  Communism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Compton, Arthur (i), (ii)

  Cooley, Charles (i), (ii)

  Coote, Henry (i)

  Copernicus, Nicolaus (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Coptic music (i)

  cosmological constant (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Cotswolds (UK) (i)

  Cottingham, E. T. (i), (ii)

  Cromer (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Crommelin, A. C. D. (i), (ii)

  Cunningham, Ebenezer (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Curie, Marie (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Czechoslovakia (i), (ii)r />
  Daily Express (newspaper) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Daily Herald (newspaper) (i)

  Daily Mail (newspaper) (i)

  Daily Mirror (newspaper) (i), (ii)

  Daily Princetonian (newspaper) (i)

  Daily Telegraph (newspaper) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Daudet, Léon (i)

  Davidson, C. R. (i)

  Davidson, Randall (i), (ii)

  Debye, Peter (i), (ii)

  Deneke, Helena (i), (ii)

  Deneke, Margaret (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Denmark (i)

  Deutsche Tageszeitung (newspaper) (i)

  Dickens, Charles (i)

  Dirac, Paul (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge see Carroll, Lewis

  Dongen, Jeroen van (i)

  Dover (UK) (i)

  Dresden (Germany) (i)

  Dreyfus Affair (1894–1906) (i)

  Drummond, Eric (i)

  Dublin (Eire) (i)

  Dudden, Frederick Homes (i)

  Dukas, Helen (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dulong, Pierre (i)

  Dundas, Robert Hamilton (i)

  Durrell, C. V. (i)

  Dyson, Frank (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Dyson, Freeman (i)

  Eastern Daily Press (newspaper) (i)

  Eastoe, Herbert (i), (ii), (iii)

  Eddington, Arthur

  astronomy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  career (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  education (i)

  humour (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  leads solar eclipse expedition (1919) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  lecturer on relativity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  pacifism (i)

  Edinburgh, University of (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ehrenfest, Paul (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Einstein, Albert

  academic career and honours (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  aloofness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Anglophilia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  appearance and dress (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  birth (i)

  in Britain (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  childhood (i)

  citizenship (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  death (i)

  death threats against (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii)

  education (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  and English language (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  fame (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii)

  health (i), (ii), (iii)

  on human relationships (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  humour (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv), (xxvi), (xxvii), (xxviii), (xxix)

  Jewishness (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii)

  marriages and children (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  mathematics/physics see relevant entries, e.g., cosmological constant; quantum concept/theory; relativity

  and music (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)

  and Nazism see Nazism

  pacifism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv)

  patent-office employment (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  philosophy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  and politics see entries for individuals, institutions, movements, nations, e.g., Hitler, Adolf; League of Nations; Zionism; USA

  and portraiture (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  religion (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  and sailing (i), (ii), (iii)

  Einstein, Alfred (i)

  Einstein, Eduard (AE’s son) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Einstein, Elsa (AE’s second wife) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii)

  Einstein, Hermann (AE’s father) (i), (ii)

  Einstein, Ilse (AE’s step-daughter) (i), (ii)

  Einstein, Maja (AE’s sister) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Einstein, Margot (AE’s step-daughter) (i)

  Einstein, Pauline (AE’s mother) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Einstein Papers Project (USA) (i)

  Einstein Society (House of Commons, UK) (i)

  Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations (i), (ii)

  Einstein–Szilard refrigerator (i)

  Eisenhower, Dwight (i), (ii)

  electronic theory of matter (ETM) (i), (ii)

  Elgar, Edward (i)

  Elisabeth, Queen (of Belgium) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Elizabeth II, Queen (of UK) (i)

  Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (i)

  Epstein, Jacob (i), (ii), (iii)

  equivalence principle (i), (ii), (iii)

  ether (aether) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)

  Ettlinger, Lionel (i), (ii)

  Euclid (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Evans, Arthur (i)

  Evolution of Physics, The (Einstein and Infeld) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Exeter, Bishop of (i), (ii)

  Faraday, Michael (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)

  Farmelo, Graham (i)

  Farnborough (UK) (i)

  Fascism (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) (i)

  Fehme secret society (Germany) (i), (ii)

  Fermi, Enrico (i)

  Feynman, Richard (i)

  Fiedler, Hermann (i), (ii)

  First World War (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)

  Fischer, Emil (i)

  Fisher, H. A. L. (i), (ii)

  Fitzgerald, Edward (i)

  Fitzgerald, George (i)

  Fitzgerald, Lady (i)

  Flexner, Abraham (i), (ii)

  Fölsing, Albrecht (i), (ii), (iii)

  Foot, Michael (i)

  Fort, Adrian (i)

  France (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)

  Frank, Philipp (i), (ii)

  Frauenglass, William (i)

  Freud, Sigmund (i)

  Friedmann, Alexander (i), (ii)

  Friend, The (magazine) (i)

  Galileo Galilei (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)

  Gamow, George (i)

  Gandhi, Mahatma (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Gehrcke, Ernst (i), (ii)

  Geneva (Switzerland) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  George V, King (of UK) (i)

  Gerber, Paul (i)

  German Emergency Committee of the Society of Friends (i)

  German League for Human Rights (i)

  Germany

  before 1933 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii)

  in 1933 and after (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi)


  Ginsberg, Asher (i)

  Glasgow, University of (UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Goebbels, Josef (i), (ii), (iii)

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (i), (ii), (iii)

  Golding, William (i)

  Gollancz, Victor (i)

  Göring, Hermann (i)

  Göttingen University (Germany) (i), (ii)

  gravitational redshift (i)

  gravitational waves (i)

  Greece (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Griffiths, John (i), (ii)

  Griffiths, Robin (i)

  Grigg, James (i)

  Grossmann, Marcel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Gunfield (Oxford, UK) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Gunther, Robert (i)

  Haber, Fritz (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Habicht, Conrad (i)

  Haldane, John Scott (i)

  Haldane, Richard (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Hamburg (Germany) (i)

  Handel, George Frederick (i), (ii), (iii)

  Harden, Maximilian (i)

  Hardy, Godfrey Harold (i)

  Harrod, Roy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hartog, Philip (i)

  Hawking, Stephen (i), (ii), (iii)

  Haydn, Joseph (i), (ii)

  Hebrew University (Jerusalem) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)

  Heisenberg, Werner (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  Heisenberg uncertainty principle (i), (ii)

  Helmholtz, Hermann von (i)

  Heraclitus (i)

  Herbert Spencer lecture (Einstein) see ‘On the Method of Theoretical Physics’

  Herman, Robert (i)

  Herriot, Édouard (i)

  Hertz, Heinrich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Herzl, Theodor (i)

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  Hiroshima (Japan) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hitler, Adolf (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii)

  Hitler Youth (i)

  Hoare, Samuel (i), (ii)

  Hoffmann, Banesh (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Holland (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

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  Hoover, J. Edgar (i)

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  Howard, Marjory (i), (ii)

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