Einstein: His Life and Universe

Viennese Academy, 234

Viereck, George Sylvester, 385–87

Villa Carlotta, 64

Viollejules, 24, 25

viscosity, 102, 105

volume, 98, 101–3

Wagner, Richard, 11–12, 38

Waldorf Hotel, 375

Walker, Evan, 136

Walker Jimmy, 370

Wallace, Henry, 504

Walsh, David, 295

War Bonds, 482

Warburg, Emil, 174

War Resisters’ International, 414–17

War Resisters’ League, 375, 376, 400, 402, 499

Washington, George, 529

Washington Post, 295–96, 528

Waste Land, The (Eliot), 280

water waves, 92, 109–10

Walters, Leon, 402, 436, 441, 443

wavelengths, 65, 94–95, 97, 111, 322, 323, 331

wave mechanics, 329–30, 331, 347, 454–55, 456

wave theory, 1, 19, 24, 26, 34, 46, 47–48, 94–95, 97–98, 109–12, 119, 155–57, 170, 318, 323, 329, 578n

Weber, Heinrich, 25, 32, 33–34, 47–48, 55, 60–61, 115, 169, 177

weight and weightlessness, 145–46, 190

Weimar Republic, 284

Weinberg, Steven, 340–41, 356

Weisskopf, Victor, 407

Weizmann, Chaim, 290, 294, 295, 298–99, 300, 303, 381, 409, 413–14, 520

Wells, H.G., 132, 377

Wertheimer, Max, 116, 241–42

Wesleyan University, 343

Westmoreland, 424, 425–26

Weyl, Hermann, 298, 337, 339, 351

Weyland, Paul, 284–86, 287, 288–89

“What I Believe” (Einstein), 387, 391

“What Is the Theory of Relativity?” (Einstein), 267

Wheeler, John Archibald, 220, 251, 325, 469, 515

White, Theodore, 533

Whitehead, Alfred North, 261

“Why do They Hate the Jews?” (Einstein), 445

“Why Socialism?” (Einstein), 504

Wieman, Carl E., 329n

Wien, Wilhelm, 48, 115–16, 149, 168, 310

Wigner, Eugene, 407, 471–73, 475, 476, 480

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 386

Williams, Charles, 526

Williams, John Sharp, 295