O’Connell, William Henry, 388, 389
Office of Scientific Research and Development, U.S., 480
Olympia Academy, 79–84, 85, 93, 125, 131, 135, 143, 164, 274, 317, 462, 513, 536
“On a Heuristic Point of View Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light” (Einstein), 94–101, 105
“On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” (Einstein), 122–35
“On the Influence of Gravity on the Propagation of Light” (Einstein), 190–91, 256
“On the Investigation of the State of Ether in a Magnetic Field” (Einstein), 24–25
“On the Method of Theoretical Physics” (Einstein), 350–53
“On the Molecular Theory of Heat” (Einstein), 97
“On the Quantum Theorem of Sommerfeld and Epstein” (Einstein), 608
“On the Quantum Theory of Radiation” (Einstein), 322–24
Oppenheim, Shulamith, 13
Oppenheimer, Frank, 531
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 251, 480, 488–89, 509,
Oppenheimer, Kitty, 531
optics, 98, 114
Oseen, Carl Wilhelm, 313–14
osmosis, 480–81
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 59–60, 70, 310
“Outline of a Generalized Theory of Relativity and a Theory of Gravitation” (
Overbye, Dennis, 13, 127, 216, 255, 459
Oxford University, 350–53, 361–62, 396–97, 410, 412, 418–20, 422–24, 431, 432, 549, 591
pacifism, 4, 23, 58, 205–9, 212, 302, 305, 371, 373, 374–78, 381–83, 396, 399–401, 402, 403, 404–5, 414–17, 421, 483, 490, 498–99, 501, 521, 633
Pais, Abraham, 106, 165, 218, 275, 297
Panama Canal, 371
Papen, Franz von, 399
paradoxes, 114–15, 130
parietal cortex, 547–48
particle (quantum) theory, 1, 65, 93, 94–101, 105, 110, 120–22, 124, 140, 141–42, 144, 150, 155–57, 165, 168–71, 179, 190, 235, 255, 256, 286, 313–14, 318–20, 321, 326–33, 337
Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 402–3
Pasteur, Louis, 423
Paterniti, Michael, 546, 640
Patterson, Cissy, 615
Paul, Saint, 343
Pauli, Wolfgang, 156, 267, 343–44, 345, 346, 451, 466, 538
Pauling, Linus, 171
Peacock Inn, 426
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 480
Pearson, Drew, 534
Penrose, Boies, 295
Penrose, Roger, 251, 581
perihelion, 199, 212, 213, 218–19, 223, 224, 250, 311, 313, 593
