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Abraham, Max, 221, 592n

Abrams, Henry, 640n

acceleration, 108, 145–49, 155, 181–82, 188–92, 199, 201–2, 223, 319–20, 511, 548, 607n

“action at a distance,” 319–20, 330, 346–47, 448–53, 454, 458

Adler, Friedrich, 38–39, 150–51, 156, 158–59, 163, 240

AEG, 302

affine connection, 339, 344

African-Americans, 445, 505, 531

Agriculture Department, U.S., 443–44

Albert I, King of Belgium, 415–16, 432

Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 296

Aleckovic, Mira, 87

algebra, 17

All Quiet on the Western Front, 372

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 136

“American Creed, The,” 530–31

American Friends Service Committee, 445, 624n

ammonia, 206

AM radio signals, 111

Analysis of the Sensations (Mach), 81

analytic propositions, 82–83

Anderson, Marian, 445

Andromeda galaxy, 254, 353

Annalen derPhysik, 57, 58, 70, 94, 102, 127, 138, 140, 190–91, 220

Antigone (Sophocles), 81

anti-Semitism, 3, 15, 30, 43, 61, 142, 149, 152, 163–64, 177, 183, 207, 269–71, 281–308, 311–12, 315, 359, 403–10, 427, 428–30, 443, 444–45, 469, 475, 505, 517, 524, 567n, 601n

“Appeal to the Cultured World” (“Manifesto of the 93”) (1914), 206–7, 244

Arabs, 381, 409, 520, 541

Aristarchus, 518

Aristotle, 5

arms control, 487–95, 498, 500–501

Army, U.S., 478

Arrhenius, Svante, 310, 311, 312, 314

Aspect, Alain, 458

Associated Press, 355

Association of Manhattan Project Scientists, 491

astrology, 384

astronomy, 5, 191, 202–5, 218, 253, 254–62, 267, 269, 275–76, 311, 316, 317, 353–56

atheism, 386, 388–90, 462, 587n

Atlantic, 489, 497

atomic bomb, 5, 272, 382, 415, 469–76, 480–86, 489–90, 497–98, 500, 509, 525, n–32n

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 531–32

“Atomic War or Peace” (Einstein), 489–90, 497–98

atomic weight, 57

atoms:

existence of, 2, 43, 56, 57, 70, 93, 94, 95, 101, 103, 104, 140, 164, 169, 255

gas, 164, 323, 480–81

momentum and position in, 323, 346, 348–49

nucleus of, 322, 456

splitting of (nuclear fission), 469–72

structure of, 314, 321–22, 325, 345, 456

subatomic particles of, 316, 322–33, 334, 345, 352, 353, 454, 459–60, 463–64, 512, 538, 625n, 627n

Attempt at a Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Moving Bodies (Lorentz), 116–17

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 163–64

autism, 566n

Avogadro, Amedeo, 101–2

Avogadro’s number, 101–3, 106

Aydelotte, Frank, 480–81

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 29, 38, 420, 472

Bad Nauheim conference (1920), 287–89

Baldwin, Roger, 380

Balfour, Arthur, 290

Ballets Russes, 280

Balthazar (Durrell), 279

Bamberger, Louis, 395, 397

Baron-Cohen, Simon, 566n

Barrow, John, 351–52

Baruch, Bernard, 474

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 29, 38, 207, 536

Begin, Menachem, 520

Beginning or the End, The, 491–93

Belgian War Resisters’ Committee, 417

Belgium, 168, 471–73

Bell, John Stewart, 458

Ben-Gurion, David, 508, 521, 523

Berkeley, George, 81, 350

Berks, Robert, 604n

Berlin, Isaiah, 278

Berlin, University of, 14, 168, 178–81, 184–89, 201, 202, 203–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 227n, 228–32, 234, 236, 237, 241–42, 246–48, 249, 259, 261–62, 271, 277, 280, 281–89, 301–6, 307, 315, 318, 356–59, 362, 363, 364, 381–83, 384, 387–89, 392, 394–95, 399–401, 403, 408, 411, 471, 523, 601n

Berliner Tageblatt, 285–88, 359

Berlin Physical Society, 96

Bern, University of, 142, 144–53

Bern Clock Tower, 107, 113, 124, 125–26

Bern Scientific Society, 438

Bernstein, Aaron, 18–19, 567n

Bernstein, Jeremy, 468, 576n

Besso, Anna Winteler, 27, 62, 231, 237, 418, 517, 540, 636n

Besso, Michele Angelo, 27, 61–62, 66, 83, 85, 101, 106, 113, 122, 126, 128, 136, 150, 151, 169, 170, 174, 184, 186, 190, 199, 200–201, 210, 211, 213, 215, 218, 221, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230–31, 234, 237, 239, 277, 322, 323, 334, 341, 355, 417, 418, 517, 538, 540, 576n, 591n, 636n

Bethe, Hans, 407

Bible, 20, 386, 391, 434

Bibo (Einstein’s parrot), 438, 535–36

Big Bang theory, 355

Biology of War, The (Nicolai), 244

birth control, 65–66

bivector fields, 512

Bizet, Georges, 370

blackbody radiation, 68, 94–95, 96, 98, 99–100, 118, 322

black holes, 250–52

Blackwood, Caroline, 433–34

Blumenfeld, Kurt, 282, 290, 303

Bohm, David, 458, 534

Bohr, Niels:

atomic model of, 314, 321–22, 325, 345

Einstein’s disputes with, 269, 324–26, 344–49, 496, 514–15, 539, 609n

at Institute for Advanced Study, 514–15

in Manhattan Project, 482–84

Nobel Prize awarded to, 325

photograph of, 336

quantum mechanics supported by, 324–26, 332–33, 344–49, 448, 451–52, 458, 468–69, 514–15, 626n

reputation of, 5, 269, 311, 330–31, 325, 338, 407

Boltzmann, Ludwig, 33, 49, 56–57, 67, 68, 69–72, 98

Bond, Horace, 505

Bond, Julian, 505

“border conditions,” 252–54, 265–66

Born, Hedwig, 270, 286–87, 330, 331, 372, 392, 393, 408, 429

Born, Max, 95, 100, 106, 132, 223–24, 241–42, 253, 267, 268, 269–70, 274, 286, 287, 288, 324, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335, 392, 393, 408, 413, 429, 432, 442, 448, 450, 461, 463, 464, 519–20, 538, 539

Bose, Satyendra Nath, 327–29, 609n

Bose-Einstein condensation, 328–29, 609n

Bose-Einstein statistics, 327–28

Boston Globe, 136

Boston Herald, 299

Brahe, Tycho, 166

Brahms, Johannes, 167

Brandeis, Louis, 298

Brandeis University, 522

Breuer, Marcel, 359–60

Briggs, Lyman, 476

Brillouin, Marcel, 313

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 90, 575n

Brod, Max, 166–67

Broglie, Louis de, 326–27, 330, 345, 347, 538–39, 583n

Brown, Robert, 103, 104

Brownian motion, 68, 93, 101, 103–6, 117, 118, 140, 351, 373, 577n

Brush, Steven, 99

Bucky, Gustav, 435, 438, 540, 544

Bucky, Peter, 435–36, 441, 443, 517

Bucky, Thomas, 379

Bush, Vannevar, 480, 481

Byland, Hans, 27–28

Byrnes, James, 484

calculus, 16, 93

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 315n, 368, 373, 374, 380–81, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431, 444

Calvin, John, 155

Cambridge University, 267

Canova, Antonio, 64

capillary effect, 56–58, 59, 68

capitalism, 497, 504

Carmen (Bizet), 370

Cartan, Elie Joseph, 344

Casablanca, 493

Case Western University, 300

cathode rays, 65

Catholic Church, 389

centrifugal force, 251–52

cerebral cortex, 547

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 81, 518

Chamberlain, Austen, 419–20

Chambers, Whittaker, 485

Chaplin, Charlie, 263, 268, 373, 374, 403, 427

chemical weapons, 206

Chicago Daily Tribune, 528

Chicago Herald and Examiner, 296

Chicago Tribune, 296–97

Chico (Einstein’s terrier), 438

chlorine gas, 206

Chopin, Frederic, 365

Christian Science, 444

Christoffel van de Hulst, Hendrik, 215

Churchill, Winston, 394, 412, 419, 483

City Lights, 263, 374

civil rights movement, 505, 531

Civil War, U.S., 488–89

Cohen, I. Bernard, 540–41

Cohn, Roy, 530

cold war, 499–500, 504

Collier’s, 445

Columbia University, 370, 471

communism, 287, 379–80, 399–401, 403, 420–21, 445–47, 478, 489–90, 494–503, 524–34, 550, 633n–34n

compasses, 13, 67, 462, 538, 548

complementarity, 452–53

Compton, Arthur, 345

Compton, Karl, 474

Concerto for Two Violins in D-minor (Bach), 430

condensation, 328–29

Congolese uranium exports, 471–73

Congressional Record, 295

constant velocity, 107–9, 114, 118–19, 127–31, 145, 148, 189, 201

Constitution, U.S., 510, 527–28, 530–31, 534

contraction, 112–13, 116

Copenhagen interpretation, 332–33, 347, 349, 424, 449, 453, 455, 457, 459–60, 626n–27n

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 108, 112, 163, 353

Cordoba observatory, 204

Cornell, Eric A., 329n

cosmic rays, 403 ”Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity” (Einstein), 252–53

cosmological constant, 254–55, 353–56, 372, 613n

cosmology, 223–24, 248, 249–62, 265–66, 353–56, 372, 442, 510–11, 613n

Cousins, Norman, 495

covariance, 195, 198–202, 212, 213, 218–22, 224, 591n–92n, 594n

Cox, Charming, 299n

“Creation of the United States of Europe, The,” 207–8

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 20, 574n

Crouch, Henry, 264

Crowther, Bosley, 493

Cupid and Psyche (Canova), 64

Curie, Marie, 168, 176, 181–82, 304, 305, 327

Dearborn Independent, 289

death penalty, 525–26

Debye, Peter, 176 ”Declaration of Protest,” 304

decoherent histories, 459–60, 626n–27n

Delong, Adelaide, 439–40

democracy, 240, 242, 287, 420, 423–24, 479–80, 489–90, 499, 503–7, 537

Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les (Picasso), 280

Depression, Great, 370–71, 516, 607n

determinism, 84, 156, 316, 317, 320–21, 323–25, 331–33, 334, 340, 345, 347, 349, 455, 575n

“Deutsch Physik” (“German Physics”), 289, 315, 405–10

Dewey, John, 377

Diaghilev, Serge, 280

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo), 108–9

Diamond, Marian, 547

differential calculus, 61

diffusion, 105, 223, 481–82

Dirac, Paul, 223, 345, 349

distant parallelism, 341, 343–44

DNA, 546–47

“Does the Field Theory Offer Possibilities for the Solution of Quanta Problems?” (Einstein), 340

“Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?” (Einstein), 138–39

Dongen, Jeroen von, 594n

Don Quixote (Cervantes), 81, 518

Doppler effect (red shift), 119n, 148, 254, 311, 353–56

double stars, 580n Douglas, William O., 526

Drake, Tom, 492

“Dr. Einstein’s Mistaken Notions,” 497

Driving Mr. Albert (Paterniti), 546, 640n

Drude, Paul, 68–69, 71, 102

DuBois, W.E.B., 531

Duhem, Pierre, 158

Dukas, Helen, 84, 363, 371, 410, 424, 437–39, 443, 446, 479, 481, 482, 485, 501, 517, 521, 530, 541–42, 544, 633n, 636n, 639n

Durrell, Lawrence, 279

Dutch Royal Academy, 260–61

Dyson, Frank, 257, 261, 269

Dyson, Freeman, 134, 251, 269

Dyson, George, 363

E=mc2, 2, 5, 137–39, 140, 219, 272, 348, 469–70, 485, 604n

Eban, Abba, 521–22, 523, 541

echolalia, 9

eclipses, 5, 191, 202–5, 218, 255–62, 267, 269, 275–76, 311, 316, 317

Economist, 136

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 256–62, 264, 267, 279, 312, 321, 339, 340, 343, 355n, 600n, 601n

Eddy, Mary Baker, 343

Edison, Thomas, 6, 299

Edison test, 299

Ehrenfest, Paul, 68, 120, 132, 165, 167–68, 180, 184, 204, 205, 218, 234, 252, 259, 268, 271, 276, 281, 287, 289, 325, 331, 345, 396, 421–22

Einstein, Albert:

in Aarau, Germany, 25–31, 40, 46, 113, 115

at Aarenshoop resort, 238–39

absentmindedness of, 39, 44, 59, 203, 221n, 426–28, 435–36, 437, 438–41, 519

academic career of, 149–52, 158–63, 175–88, 239, 304–5, 368, 394–412, 431–32

academic positions sought by, 54–56, 57, 58–63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 78, 86, 92, 140, 142, 144–45, 149–53

aloofness of, 2, 5, 12–13, 41, 44, 100, 150–51, 154, 161–62, 184–86, 226, 231, 232–33, 271, 273–77, 280, 441–43, 516, 518, 519–20

anemia of, 517, 536

aneurysm of, 516–17, 536, 541–43

in Antwerp, 368

arms control supported by, 487–95, 498, 500–501

in Arosa, Switzerland, 234, 243

assimilation opposed by, 205–6, 280–84, 291, 302–4, 386, 408–10, 428

astrology and spiritualism as viewed by, 374, 384

atheism as viewed by, 386, 388–90, 462, 587n

Austro-Hungarian citizenship of, 163–64

authority questioned by, 2, 7, 8–9, 12–13, 20–22, 29, 34, 38, 49, 54–55, 67–72, 73, 113, 180, 240, 317, 378–79, 550

autograph of, 369, 445

awards and honors received by, 3, 60, 101, 154–55, 235, 236, 243, 280, 297, 309–16, 337, 348, 352, 368, 387, 438, 490, 505, 516, 533–34, 606n, 607n

at Bad Nauheim conference, 287–89

in Belgium, 168–71, 289–91, 344–49, 405, 410–22

as Berlin University professor, 14, 168, 178–81, 184–89, 201, 202, 203–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 221n, 228–32, 234, 236, 237, 241–42, 246–48, 259, 261–62, 271, 277, 280, 281–89, 301–6, 307, 315, 318, 356–59, 362, 363, 364, 381–83, 384, 387–89, 392, 394–95, 399–401, 403, 411, 471, 523, 601n

in Bermuda, 437, 479, 506

as Bern resident, 75–89, 124, 125–26, 141–55, 167, 184–88

as Bern University professor, 144–53

biographies of, 269–71, 465, 478, 498, 518, 601n, 639n

birth of, 11, 91–92

Bohr’s disputes with, 269, 324–26, 344–49, 496, 514–15, 539, 609n

brain of, 545–48, 640n busts of, 423, 436

in California, 263, 268, 315, 354–55, 368, 371, 372–74, 380–81, 384, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431

at Caltech, 315n, 368, 373, 374, 380–81, 395–98, 399, 401–4, 431

Caputh cottage of, 357–60, 357, 361, 362, 387, 395, 397, 398, 399, 401, 405, 444, 447, 619n

Central America visited by, 364, 371–72

in Ceylon, 306

in Chicago, 374–75, 404–5

childhood of, 8–31, 67, 114, 180, 205, 385, 462, 483, 538, 548

in Cleveland, 300, 461–62

communism as viewed by, 287, 379–80, 399–401, 403, 420–21, 445–47, 478, 489–90, 494–503, 524–34, 550, 633n–34n

compass given to, 13, 67, 462, 538, 548

correspondence of, 1, 3, 39–47, 50–53, 93, 94, 97, 104, 106, 131, 135, 137–38, 143–44, 165, 170, 171, 174, 184, 355, 360–61, 405–6, 408–9, 411, 415–16, 417, 421–22; see also specific correspondents

correspondence of (Berlin), 184, 201, 202, 203–4, 205, 208, 209–11, 212, 213, 215–16, 217, 218–21, 224, 227n, 230–32, 234, 237, 242, 259, 271, 277, 286, 307, 318, 362, 363, 381–83, 387–89, 392, 601n

correspondence of (Princeton), 430–31, 438, 441, 442, 467, 478, 482–83, 484, 500–501, 503, 513, 519–20, 524–29, 537, 539, 540, 636n

cremation of, 544, 545

in Cuba, 371

daily walks of, 438–39, 442–43, 509, 536–37

death of, 88, 94, 251, 445, 541–45

death threats against, 410–11, 422–23, 437

democracy supported by, 240, 242, 287, 420, 423–24, 479–80, 489–90, 499, 503–7, 537

economic views of, 370–71, 375, 380, 403, 504–5, 633n

education as viewed by, 6–7, 21–22, 26, 290, 292, 293, 299, 550

education of, 8–9, 15–49, 54–56, 60, 113, 115, 150–51, 565n

engineering background of, 23–24, 31, 53–54, 91, 113, 115, 126–27, 143–44, 161, 276–77, 304, 435, 443, 444, 517

English spoken by, 394, 402, 446, 464, 525

essays of, 208–9, 380, 479–80, 489–90, 497–98, 504

eyeballs of, 640n

fame and reputation of, 2, 5–6, 136, 140–42, 149, 151–52, 154, 163, 166, 168–69, 172, 175, 176–77, 196, 240, 247, 263–316, 339–44, 357–59, 363, 368–76, 396, 403, 426–30, 445, 472–73, 517, 520–23, 525–34, 540, 541, 544–45, 633n, 639n

as father, 75–76, 86–88, 143, 161–62, 174–75, 186, 187, 209–11, 215–16, 225–40, 243, 246, 274, 276–77, 301, 417–19

FBI file on, 287, 379, 399, 477–78, 500–503, 525, 534, 629n

FDR letter written by, 473–78, 484, 485, n–30n

FDR’s meeting with, 430–31, 493

fiftieth birthday of, 357–59, 362–63

film portrayal of, 491–93

financial situation of, 22–23, 32, 39, 72–73, 88–89, 162–63, 164, 179, 186, 187, 188, 204, 210, 215, 226, 228, 233, 234–36, 244, 275–76, 289–90, 297, 302, 306–7, 309, 316, 359, 397, 403, 465, 478–79, 607n, 639n

foreign tour of, 306–8, 309, 310, 315

France visited by, 301, 309, 311

free speech supported by, 479–80, 524–34

free will as viewed by, 387, 388, 391–93, 618n, 635n

French spoken by, 208, 301

friendships of, 12–13, 35–36, 61–62, 79–81, 85, 104, 137–39, 142, 143, 167–68, 184, 185, 206, 208, 222, 228, 231, 260, 269–71, 274–75, 286–87, 294–95, 305, 363, 364, 408, 421–22, 518–19, 536, 540, 542, 566n

generosity and kindness of, 5, 186, 187, 188, 210, 215, 226, 228, 234–36, 275–76, 302, 309, 316, 427–30, 438–41, 445, 516, 518–19, 607n

at Geneva Disarmament Conference, 377–78

German citizenship of, 23, 29, 58, 164, 405, 406

German culture as viewed by, 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 180, 205–9, 239–42, 275, 282–84, 401–3, 414, 447, 505–6, 542

German spoken by, 149, 297, 306, 431, 542–43

in Glasgow, 419

“God does not play dice” quote of, 4, 326, 335, 392, 515, 538, 549, 609n

as grandfather, 443, 444

grief experienced by, 84–85, 277, 417–19, 441–42, 518

gyroscope improvement by, 304

hand injured by, 35

at Havel River villa, 341–42, 357–58

heart inflammation of, 363

Herbert Spencer Lecture given by, 419, 591n

hiking trips of, 24, 42, 46, 80–81, 181–82, 203, 209, 210, 217, 225, 229

in Hollywood, 263, 268, 372–73, 374

honorary degrees awarded to, 154–55, 352, 505

ill health of, 13, 35, 217, 233, 234, 238, 255, 291, 342, 363, 516–17, 519, 536, 541–42, 548

immigration visa of, 399–401, 437, 477, 479

individual freedom supported by, 433, 445–47, 478–80, 503–7, 524–34, 537, 550, 637n

at Institute for Advanced Study, 298, 395–98, 402, 405, 410, 411–12, 425–26, 428, 431–32, 436, 438, 439, 442–43, 450, 453, 464, 466, 468–69, 480, 508–9, 514–15, 532, 536, 537, 541, 622n

intellectual development of, 1–2, 8–9, 12, 78–84

as internationalist, 205–9, 240, 282, 291, 301, 302, 305, 378, 381–82, 386, 479, 482–83, 487–500, 541, 601n, 631n

interviews with, 266, 342, 385–87, 420–21, 423, 428–29, 440–41, 450, 469–70

inventions of, 143–44, 161, 304, 435, 471

Israeli presidency offered to, 520–23

in Japan, 306–7, 309, 310, 315, 339, 393

Jewish background of, 3, 9–10, 11, 15, 16, 18, 20–21, 29–30, 43, 52, 61, 142, 149, 152, 163–64, 177, 183, 207, 243, 263, 269–71, 273, 281–308, 311–12, 315, 342, 359, 381, 385, 403–10, 412–14, 420, 427, 428–30, 444–45, 447, 505–6, 520–23, 541, 543, 567n

Jewish refugees aided by, 429–30, 445

in Kiel, Germany, 304, 305

Kyoto address of, 116

at Lake Como, 63–64

at Le Coq sur Mer, Belgium, 410–22

lectures given by, 150–52, 159–60, 168–71, 175–76, 179, 203, 212, 214–15, 218, 219–20, 223, 228, 232, 239, 272, 295, 296, 297, 298, 306–7, 318–20, 321, 350–53, 361–62, 396–97, 469

in Leiden, 164–66, 168, 318–20, 360–61

in London, 279, 301

as loner, 12, 15, 24, 35–36, 38, 52, 137, 211, 357–60, 363, 423–24, 431–32, 435–36, 442–43, 551

love life of, 27, 28, 40–47, 153–54, 243, 275, 360–64, 437, 441–42, 502–4, 517, 535, 538, 540, 546–47

magazine and newspaper articles by, 267, 281, 285–88, 377, 445, 489–90, 497–98

manifestos signed by, 207, 539, 541

McCarthyism opposed by, 480, 500, 524–34, 537, 550

in Melchtal, Switzerland, 50–51, 53, 54

Mercer Street home of, 425, 437–43, 445, 483, 509, 515, 518, 530, 532, 540–41, 639n

in Milan, 45, 58–63

militarism opposed by, 4, 205–9, 240, 275, 371, 373, 375, 381–83, 414–17, 419–20, 488, 494, 498–99, 520

as military consultant, 481–82

military service avoided by, 23, 58

moral principles of, 378–79, 387, 388, 391–93, 541, 549–50, 602n, 618n, 635n

in Munich, 11–23, 294, 305, 483

music system as gift to, 519, 536

nationalism opposed by, 4, 205–9, 240, 282, 291, 301, 302, 305, 378, 381–82, 386, 479, 482–83, 487–491, 601n

nervous strain of, 184, 217–18, 255

newspaper advertisement placed by, 76, 79

Newton admired by, 248, 301, 360, 423, 438

Newton compared with, 5, 6, 90–91, 93, 312, 333, 352, 544, 549, 581n

in New York City, 281, 292–95, 369–71, 375–76, 402, 443

Nobel Prize awarded to, 3, 60, 101, 235, 236, 243, 280, 309–16, 337, 387, 490, 516, 606n, 607n

as nonconformist, 4, 7, 15, 20–22, 35–36, 38–39, 49, 52–53, 67, 74–75, 76, 85–86, 158, 159, 182, 248, 271–72, 305, 317, 347–48, 463, 523, 527, 550

nuclear weapons opposed by, 482–84, 487–95, 539, 541, 631n–32n

offices of, 166, 298, 426, 438, 508–9

at Old Lyme, Conn, cottage, 436

ordinance capabilities analyzed by, 481–82

organizations joined by, 207–8, 305–6, 399, 400, 445–46, 490–91, 500, 501, n–34n

at Oxford University, 350–53, 361–62, 396–97, 410, 412, 418–20, 422–24, 431, 432, 549, 591n

as pacifist, 4, 23, 58, 205–9, 212, 302, 305, 371, 373, 374–78, 381–83, 396, 399–401, 402, 403, 404–5, 414–17, 421, 483, 490, 498–99, 501, 521, 633n

in Palestine, 306, 307–8

in Panama, 371–72

papers of, 75n, 86, 136, 404, 433–34, 633n, 639n

in Paris, 309, 311

as patent examiner, 1, 3, 36, 62–63, 72, 74, 76, 77–79, 84, 85–86, 89, 90, 92–93, 113, 122, 126, 128, 137–38, 140, 141, 142–43, 149, 150, 151, 154–55, 159, 250, 255, 266, 424, 444, 517, 551

patents awarded to, 304, 435, 471

in Pavia, Italy, 23–25

at Peconic, N.Y. cottage, 472

personal enemies of, 207, 285–87, 304, 314–15, 405–10

personality of, 2–3, 4, 12–15, 21, 27–28, 34, 38, 39, 41, 46, 49, 50–51, 54–55, 84–85, 142, 150–51, 154, 161–62, 166–67, 173, 208, 211–12, 214, 247–48, 268–69, 273–77, 280, 285–89, 357–63, 364, 417–19, 441–43, 509, 518–20, 549–50, 566n, 635n

personal problems avoided by, 154, 166–67, 174–75, 183, 184–86, 187, 188, 208, 215–16, 224, 225, 231, 232–33, 234, 239, 273–77, 441–42

pets owned by, 438, 535–36

philosophy studied by, 20, 52–53, 79–84, 113, 164, 166, 238, 334–35, 387, 388–89, 391, 460–61, 518, 627n

photographs of, ix, 8, 50, 90, 178, 225, 249, 263, 269, 281, 287, 293, 309, 336, 369, 371, 374, 394, 418–19, 436, 443, 471, 487, 493–94, 508, 524

physical appearance of, 2, 5, 27–28, 39, 79–80, 142, 150, 159, 182, 347, 426, 447, 518, 530