Breeder reactors, 456 – 458
Bremsstrahlung, 68
Brillouin zones, 371, 372
Buckyballs, 344
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, 330C 60 buckyball, 344
Cadmium, 443
Cancer, 422, 423
Carbon, 358
Carbon dioxide gas lasers, 151
Carbon nanotubes, 344
Carbon-carbon group, 289
Casimir effect, 222
Casimir, Hendrik, 222
Cavendish, Henry, 54
Center-of-mass coordinate system, 448 – 450
Cerenkov radiation, 8
CERN, 474, 482, 483
Chadwick, James, 121
Chain reaction, 453, 454
Chandrasekhar limit, 329
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, 329
Charged pion decay, 479
Charm, 490, 492
Chemical lasers, 151
Chen Ning Yang, 479
Chernobyl nuclear accident, 459
Chirped pulse amplification, 151
Ci, 422
Classical mechanics, 161
Classical physics
atomic structure, 126, 127
pillars, 126
quantum physics and, 138
specific heats of solids, 320, 321
Clocks, moving vs. at rest, 5 – 10
Closed, 240
Closed universe, 501
CO 2 molecule, 290
Cohesive energy, 339
Cold dark matter, 503
Collective model, 412
Collector, 367
Collision frequency, 435
Collision time, 350
Commutation, 197
Complex molecules, 276 – 281
Compound nucleus, 447
Compton, Arthur Holly, 77, 78
Compton effect, 75 – 79, 83
Compton wavelength, 77
Condon, Edward U., 434, 435
Conduction band, 358
Conductors, 355 – 358
Conservation of statistics, 487
Conservation principles, 486, 487
Constructive interference, 56, 57
Conversion factors, 529
Cooper, Leon, 381, 382Biographies—Cont.
Compton, Arthur Holly, 78
Curie, Marie, 431
de Broglie, Lewis, 93
Dirac, Paul A.M., 310
Einstein, Albert, 9
Feynman, Richard P., 222
Gell-Mann, Murray, 489
Glashow, Sheldon Lee, 495
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria, 409
Heisenberg, Werner, 111
Herzberg, Gerhard, 287
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot, 281
Hubble, Edwin, 13
Lorentz, Hendrik A., 41
Maxwell, James Clerk, 54
Meitner, Lise, 452
Mendeleev, Dmitri, 236
Michelson, Albert A., 4
Moseley, Henry G.J., 256
Noether, Emmy, 487
Pauli, Wolfgang, 233
Pauling, Linus, 280
Planck, Max, 60
Rayleigh, Lord, 313
Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad, 69
Rutherford, Ernest, 121
Schrödinger, Erwin, 167
Townes, Charles H., 147
Yukawa, Hideki, 413
Bismuth, 360
Black dwarf, 329
Black hole, 88, 89, 331
Blackbody, 57
Blackbody radiation, 57 – 62
Blackbody spectra, 58
Bloch, Felix, 355
Bohr, Aage, 412
Bohr atom, 130–133
Bohr magneton, 224
Bohr, Niels, 111, 120, 130, 132, 447, 448
Bohr radius, 133
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard, 54, 298
Boltzmann’s constant, 59, 299
Books, reference, 525 – 527
Born, Max, 95, 96, 111, 161, 409
Boron trioxide (B 2 O 3 ), 336
Bose, S.N., 235, 307
Bose-Einstein condensate, 309
Bose-Einstein distribution function, 307, 308, 310
Bosons, 235, 306, 307. See alsoField bosons
Bothe, W., 389
Bottom, 490, 492
Bound electron pairs, 381 – 385
Bq, 422
Brackett series, 130
Bragg planes, 73
Bragg reflection, 370
Bragg, W.L., 73, 96
Brattain, Walter, 382
Breakeven, 464 – 467532 Index
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