Einstein: His Life and Universe

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