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548 SUBJECT INDEX

Nobel prize (cont.)
Oseen report, 510,511
relativity vs photoeffect, 511
nominations by Einstein for, 13, 24, 448,
505-506, 513-518
nominations of Einstein, 45, 506-510
procedures of Academy for awarding, 502
various recipients of, 88, 103, 114, 153, 371,
448, 503, 505-506
Noether theorem, 259, 274, 276
Nordstrom theory of gravitation, 204, 229,
232-236, 240
Nuclear binding energy, 149, 326
Nuclear physics, 326-327
Objective reality, 449, 451, 454-457, 464
Oppenheimer case, 7, 10-11, 38, 475
Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, 269
Osmotic pressure, molecular reality and, 87
Pacifism, Einstein on, 11-12, 242-244, 312-
314,516
Particle physics, history of, 359-361
Particle-wave duality, 48, 49, 402-405, 443-
444
Particles
c. 1920, 325-328
new, 33
Patent applications, 489-490
Patent office in Bern, 18, 26, 46-48, 184, 208,
476, 477
Perihelion of Mercury, 22, 253-256
Perrin
Brownian motion, 99
Nobel prize, 103, 508, 509
other references, 92, 95, 97, 508, 509
Pfeffer's conjecture, 37, 88
Phenomenalism, Einstein and, 13
Phenomenon, usage of word, 455
Photoelectric effect, 357, 378-382
Photochemical process, thermodynamics of, 58
Photon, 24, 358-359, 361, 402-414; see also
Bohr-Kramers-Slater proposal
Bohr on, 418-419
chance and, 410-412
Compton effect, 412-414
condition of directedness, 410
Einstein on, 380-381, 410-412, 431-432
light-quantum and, 407-408
momentum fluctuations, 408-410
nonconservation, 425, 428, 431-432
particle picture, 407-408
properties of, 407
resistance to, 357, 361, 382-386, 416-421
spontaneous and induced radiative
transitions, 405-407
term, 407, 408
waves vs, 418-419

Photon spin, 426

Physical observation, knowledge and, 5

Physical Review, Einstein and, 495

Physics

everyday intuition and, 141

history of, 26-31

revolution and transition in, 26-31

special theory of relativity and modern, 155

Pion (meson), 32, 360

Planck, see also entries beginning Planck

application of relativity to quantum theory,

151

Boltzmann's influence on, 62

on Boltzmann's principle, 371

causality, 465

Einstein and, personal relationship, 26-27,

68, 372

experimental evidence and acceptance of

ideas, 385-386

light-quantum, attitude toward, 384

molecular reality, 82

Nobel prize, 372, 505, 506, 508, 510, 511

quantum mechanics, 404

quantum theory, see Quantum theory,

Planck and

Rayleigh-Jeans law, 374- 75

relativity, first paper on, 150-151

specific heat at low temperatures, 397

special relativity and, 28, 150-151

other references, 13, 15, 16, 20, 21, 26-28,

31, 60, 62, 69, 74, 119, 145, 149-151,

164, 174, 179, 192, 203, 239-243, 283,

312, 316, 318, 319, 358, 389, 394, 395,

398, 399, 402, 405, 425, 428, 438, 444,

465, 475, 502, 505, 506, 508, 510, 511,

513, 523, 524, 528

Planck's constant, 60, 151

Planck's law of blackbody radiation, 26, 27,

358, 368-378

Avogadro's number and, 99-100

Hose's new derivation of, 423, 425-428

Debye derivation of, 438-439

Einstein's derivation of, 20, 280, 405-407

Einstein on, 372-375, 378, 394-395

Ponderomotive force in magnetic field, 154

Poincare

aether, 127-128

Brownian motion, 94

Garnet's principle, 94

covariance of electrodynamics, 129

Einstein and, 169-172

Einstein's knowledge of work of, 133-134,

165-166

electromagnetic mass, 157-159

gravitation, 129, 230, 279

Lorentz and, 127-129, 169

Lorentz transformations and, 21, 129, 130

in 1905, 128-130