Einstein: His Life and Universe

,

550

see also

quantum mechanics; relativity; unified field theory

“Physics and Reality” (Einstein), 462–63

Picasso, Pablo, 3, 5, 280

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 469

Pity of It All, The (Elon), 284

Planck, Max, 5, 32, 95–100, 132, 140–41, 149, 155, 156, 157, 160–61, 163, 168, 169, 170, 178–79, 203, 205, 206–7, 211, 232–33, 260, 267, 269, 288, 304, 310–11, 321, 322, 326, 327, 329, 330, 331, 344, 337, 339, 344, 406, 407–8, 409, 550, 549, 576n

Planck medal, 348

Planck’s constant (h), 95–96, 99, 155, 157, 327, 331

planetary orbits, 199, 212, 213, 218–19, 223, 224, 250, 311, 313, 593n– 94n

Plesch, Janos, 357–58

Podolsky, Boris, 450–53, 456, 458, 459–60, n–26n

Poincare, Henri, 81, 125, 133–34, 135, 168, 170, 176–77, 311, 330, 550, 569n–70n, 581n

Poland, 499

polonium, 171

Ponsonby, Arthur, 414–15, 417

Poor, Charles, 277–78

Popovi, Milan, 87

positivism, 82, 350, 460–61, 462, 609n, 627n

Postal and Telegraph Building (Bern), 77, 142

postulates, 118–22, 127–28, 134, 191, 252, 335, 347, 581n

potential energy, 584n

Prague, University of, 162–68, 173, 175–77, 192, 421, 482

“Present State of the Problem of

Specific Heats, The” (Einstein),

169

–71

Princeton Country Day School, 440

Princeton Hospital, 545, 546, 547

Princeton University, 289, 297–98, 395, 399, 444–45

Principe Island, 257–58, 261

Principia (Newton), 125, 128, 199–201, 352

Principles of Human Knowledge (Berkeley), 350n

privatdozent appointments, 144–53

probability, 84, 255, 323–25, 328–29, 330, 332, 333–35, 338–39, 345, 347, 349, 353, 392, 454–56, 461, 462, 515, 626n–27n

Prolegomena (Kant), 238

Proust, Marcel, 280

Prussian Academy of Sciences, 100, 179, 203, 214–15, 218, 219–20, 250, 321, 343, 395, 398, 405–7, 408, 411

psi-functions, 457–58

Ptolemy, 518

Pueblo (Colorado) Star-Journal, 528

Pugwash Conferences, 541

Pythagoras, 194