546 SUBJECT INDEX
League of Nations, 12, 316-317
Lense-Thirring effect, 284
Leptons, 33
Light, aberration of, 117-119
Light emission by canal rays, 329
Light-quantum, 19, 38, 56, 58, 364-368, 376-
378; see also Photons
cloud chamber techniques and, 380
Compton effect proves, 24
Duane-Hunt limit, 381-382
Einstein's cautious attitude toward, 382-383,
410-411
Einstein's discovery of, 71
experimental evidence for, 384-385
heuristic principle and, 377-378, 381, 382
statement of, 377
Lorentz on, 384
momentum properties of, 20, 407-409
paradox of, 361
as particles, 403
photon and, 407-408
Planck on, 372-375, 378, 384
Rayleigh-Jeans law, 373-375
reactions to, 357-358, 361, 382-386
reality of, 410-411
Light scattering, classical theories of, 414
Liquid surfaces, thermodynamics of, 56-57
Lorentz, see also entries beginning Lorentz
abberration of light, 117-119
aether, 166-167
atomistic electromagnetic theory, 123
death of, 171
Einstein and, personal relationship, 8, 169,
209-210, 271-272
Einstein's knowledge of work of, 121, 125,
131, 133
electrodynamics, 120
electromagnetic mass, 155-159, 166
equation for electron, 139
FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction, 21, 167,
168
FitzGerald's work, knowledge of, 123-124
Fizeau experiment, 117-119
gravitation theory, 229-230, 279
on Kaufman, 166
light-quantum, attitude toward, 384
Michelson-Morley experiment, 112-113,
123, 125
Nobel prize, 153, 505-507
Poincare and, 127-129, 169
relativity and, attitude toward, 167
special relativity, 21, 27, 120-127
contributions prior to 1905, 123-126
on time, 125, 167
Voigt'swork, 121-122
other references, 12, 13, 15, 16, 44, 59, 63,
73, 112, 113, 115-131, 133, 139, 141,
145, 146, 152-157, 159, 163-167, 171,
172, 177, 193, 194, 201, 209, 210, 228-
230, 235, 236, 240, 243, 245, 250, 258,
259, 268, 270-273, 275, 278, 279, 282,
283, 291, 303, 304, 306, 316-318, 326,
358, 374, 399, 404, 431, 436, 461, 487,
505-508,525
Lorentz covariance, 126
Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction, 21, 144, 167,
168
Lorentz group, 129
Lorentz invariance, 140, 204, 231
Einstein on, 145
general relativity and, 183
Lorentz transformations, 21, 120, 123-126
Einstein and, 21, 142-144, 202, 204
Poincare and, 129, 130
special theory relativity and, 142-144
Loschmidt
Avogadro's number, method of determining,
84-85
Boltzmann, influence on, 61
Einstein's knowledge of work of, 67
on molecular reality, 84-85
other references, 83, 91
Mach
death of, 282
Einstein and, 11, 13, 216, 282-288
law of inertia, 284
mechanics, 283, 284
molecular reality, 83, 86, 103
phenomenalism, 13
philosophy, 283
relativity theory, 283
rotation, 282
other references, 15, 44, 47, 133, 216, 282-
288, 318, 505
Mach's principle, 284-288
Magnetization by rotation, 246
Mass-energy equivalence, 148-149
for gravitational mass, 182; see also
Differential geometry; Riemannian
geometry
Mathematics, Einstein and, 23
education, 37, 212
impact on, 340
paper on, 344-345
Matrix mechanics, 20, 329, 425
Matter, see also Molecular reality
current picture of basic constituents of, 33
gravitation and structure of, 253
Maxwell, see also entries beginning
Maxwell('s)
on aether, 111-112
death of, 112
demons of, 61