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. Banesh Hoffmann, in Harry Woolf, ed.,

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INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

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