“the fourteen-year-old daughter of one of his bosses.” Brock, p. 92.
“jour de bonheur . . .” Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus, p. 366.
“Lavoisier made some dismissive remarks . . .” Brock, pp. 95-96.
“failed to uncover a single one.” Strathern, p. 239.
“taken away and melted down for scrap.” Brock, p. 124.
“a highly pleasurable thrilling . . .” Cropper, p. 139.
“Theaters put on ‘laughing gas evenings’ . . .” Hamblyn, p. 76.
“(What Brown noticed . . . )” Silver, p. 201.
“for lukewarmness in the cause of liberty . . .” Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 19, p. 686.
“a diameter of 0.00000008 centimeters . . .” Asimov, The History of Physics, p. 501.
“Even water was variously rendered . . .” Boorse et al., p. 75.
“Later, for no special reason . . .” Ball, p. 139.
“Luck was not always with the Mendeleyevs.” Brock, p. 312.
“a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist . . .” Brock, p. 111.
“this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come . . .” Carey, p. 155.
“chemistry really is just a matter of counting.” Ball, p. 139.
“the most elegant organizational chart ever devised . . .” Krebs, p. 23.
“120 or so . . .” From a review in Nature, “Mind over Matter?” by Gautum R. Desiraju, September 26, 2002.
“purely speculative . . .” Heiserman, p. 33.
“Marie Curie dubbed the effect ‘radioactivity.’ ” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 75.
“He never accepted the revised figures . . .” Lewis, The Dating Game, p. 55.
“it is an unstable element.” Strathern, p. 294.
“featured with pride the therapeutic effects . . .” Advertisement in Time magazine, January 3, 1927, p. 24.
“Radioactivity wasn’t banned in consumer products until 1938.” Biddle, p. 133.
“Her lab books are kept in lead-lined boxes . . .” Science, “We Are Made of Starstuff,” May 4, 2001, p. 863.
CHAPTER 8 EINSTEIN’S UNIVERSE
“an average of slightly over one student a semester . . .” Cropper, p. 106.
“the thermodynamic principles of, well, nearly everything . . .” Cropper, p. 109.
“thermodynamics didn’t apply simply to heat and energy . . .” Snow, The Physicists, p. 7.
“the Principia of thermodynamics . . .” Kevles, The Physicists, p. 33.
“he came to the United States with his family . . .” Kevles, pp. 27-28.
“The speed of light turned out to be the same . . .” Thorne, p. 65.
“probably the most famous negative result in the history of physics.” Cropper, p. 208.
“the work of science was nearly at an end . . .” Nature, “Physics from the Inside,” July 12, 2001, p. 121.
“were among the greatest in the history of physics . . .” Snow, The Physicists, p. 101.
“His very first paper . . .” Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 6.
“J. Willard Gibbs in Connecticut had done that work as well . . .” Boorse et al., The Atomic Scientists, p. 142.
“one of the most extraordinary scientific papers ever published . . .” Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 193.
