The Life of Myron Evans: Index

Chapters 3 to 8

Aberdeen University 111

Aberystwyth 84, 94, 111,113,175,176,183,184,204

Abramis books 210,214,217,218,224

Abramson, Professor Nils 223

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan 206

Admiralty 118

Advances in Chemical physics 94

Aharonov, Yakir 100,124,127,129,131,133

Aharonov –Bohm Effect 127,131

AIAS 100,101,128,129,132,133, 173,186,189,202,203,207,208

219-236

Ali, Mohammed 192

Alpha particles 103,138,141,143,167,183

Amador, Franklyn 224,225,229,231

America 84-90, 93-98, 113-118,120,121,124,126,128

Anderson, Professor J. S. A. 164-166

Ångström, Anders Jonas 143,165

Angular momentum 148

Anis, Ted 133

Antigravity technology 232

Antimatter 125

Argentine Atomic Energy Commission 234

Aristotle 95, 102,170

Armorial bearings 217,220

Armstrong, Neil 133

Atomic bomb 96, 100,117-119,120,125,127,137,154,182,184,185

Atomic chemistry 102,103,106,108,119,145,147

Atomic energy 136,137

Atomic nucleus 103,104,118,119,122,125,143,145,161

Atomic number 104,145,170

Atomic orbitals 143,147

Atomic physics 99,102,103,105,108,119,145

Atomic reactor 120,154,184

Atomic spin 94, 106

Atoms 95, 104,105,108,109,110,118,136,139,143,175,176

Avogadro’s number 104,173,176,177

B (3) field 89, 93, 157,158, 174,181,201,203,205-207,210,213,224

Bacher, Robert 126,127

Baconian science 102,108,139,144,149,159,161,170, 176,186,208,210

Bainbridge, Kenneth 126,127

Balmer, Johann Jakob 143,145

Bangor 164

Bardeen, John 125

Becquerel, Henri 103,136,137,140

Bell Burnell, Jocelyn 197,198

Bell telephone laboratories 111

Berkeley 99,117,118,119,120,125,126,158

Berlin 99,100,102,105,112-117,120,162,192

Bern 90, 91, 173-175

Besso, 173

Bianchi, Professor Luigi 190

Bianchi identity 115,192-194,198-200,202

Big bang 201-203

Black hole 201-203,227

Blaina, South Wales 184

Bohm, David 100,107,113,120,121,124-128,131

Bohr, Harald145, 146

Bohr, Niels 96, 101,103,105,107,117-119,127,131,132, 144-153,159,161,170, 184,185,187,193,209

Boltzmann, Ludwig 95, 148,152,159, 173,175,177,209

Bond polarisation 106

Born, Max 99,107,109,111,114-117,119,120,150,154,163

Born-Haber cycle 115

Bragg’s Law 111,162,168

Bragg, W. L. and W. H. 109,111,151,161-163,168,170

Broek, Antonius van den, 145

Bristol University 127

Britannia 121

Brown, Robert 173,176

Brownian motion 104,123,148,152, 173,175-177,220

Brussels 108,109,138,144

Bryn Mawr College 115

Bunsen 116

Bury, Charles 102,146

California 113

Cal Tech 99,117,120,125,126

Cambridge University 99,103,104,114-116,120,122,139, 180,181,193,194,197

Capillary action 173

Cartan, Elie 99,100,133, 174,182,189,196,199-202,204,205,207,208,219,221,222

Cathode rays 104,155,177

Cavendish Laboratory 104,114,117-119,122,125,138,140-142,162,163,197

Celtic Irish Church 121

Chadwick, James 118,120,122

Charles University, Prague. 105,148,207

Chemical reactivity 108,109

Chicago 117,118,120,154

Christianity 121, 122

Christmas Lectures 139,164

Christoffel 190,199

Churchill, Winston 118

Cincinnati 124,128,133

Civil List Scientists 136,159,162, 173,176,181,182,189,214, 216,217,220,221

Clementi, Enrico 84, 85, 86, 88, 220

Clifford, Simon 235,236

Cockcroft, John 118,122

Coffey, Professor 123,177,178,222

Communist links 121,125,126,128,136,159,162,186

Complementarity 102,108,110,111,144,148-151,153,154,171

Compton 96, 102,105,109,111,186,187

Computer animations 84, 86, 89

Computer simulation 85, 86, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 123,160, 175,178,204,205,219,220

Conference on the Foundations of Quantum mechanics (1962) 128-134 (photo)

Copenhagen interpretation

97, 98,102,107,108,110,111,113,119,124,127,130,131,133,144.147, 151,152-157,159,161,163,170,171, 184,186-189,208,209,221,222,236

Copernicus 102

Cornell University and Theory Center 84, 88, 89, 93, 94, 116, 184,204,205,206,219,223

Correlation functions 86, 87

Cosmology 199-203

Covalent bonds 106,109

Covariant derivative 115

Craigcefnparc 84, 94, 208,215,216,218,220

Craig y Nos Castle 217,218,228-230

Crick, Francis 163

Crimea 103,194

Criticisms of the Einstein Field Equation 227

Croca, Professor Jose 152,230,231

Crothers Stephen 194,225,226,229,230

Crowning achievement 101,220,236

Crystals 104,111,115,127, 137,139,161,162,165,166,167,168,169,171,187

Crystal lattices 111,160-162

Curies, Pierre, Marie and Irène 99,103,104,109,118,136-139,141,183,185

Cyclotrons 118

Dalton, John 102,136,159,162,177

Dark matter 97, 144

Darwin, Charles 95, 182

Davisson 111

Davies, Mansel 123, 146,164,165, 178,183,184,206,222,227

Davy Medal 139

Davy, Sir Humphry 136

De Broglie-Bohm theory 121

Debye, Peter 102,103,105,106,109,110,114,116,118,119,122,147,162,178,208,222

Delaforce, Raymond 230

Delta Project and EMLG 87

Depression 214,215,218,221,225

Deterministic Physics Conference (1962) 100,148,222,223

Dielectrics 178,196

Diffraction 111,161,165,167,168.169

Diffusion 173,176,177

Dirac, Paul 100,109,118,121,124,125,129,130,131,132,133, 147,148,156,158,193,209,223,224

Dirac equation 131,132,190,208,223,224

Double pulsar 196,198

Dublin and Trinity College 121,122,123,124,178

Dublin institute for advanced studies 121,123,178,222

E=MC2 173,174,182-184,187-189,194

ECE theory 89, 93, 97, 107,132, 147,151,156,157,158, 174,181,182,186,187,193,195-199,202-208,210,216-226,229,230,232,233,235,236

Eckardt Horst 202,225,226,229,231,233

Eclipse 141, 178,193,194,195

Eddington 103, 193,194,195,196,200,201

Edward Davies Chemical Laboratories (EDCL) 139,140,142,146,160,163,164,165,166,178,184,227,228

Einstein, Albert 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99-125,127-129,131-133, 137,138,140,143-146,148-153,155,156,157,158,159,162,170, 172-182,185-196,198,199-209,219-228,236

Einstein, Elsa 174,192

Einstein, Hermann 90, 114,149,173,175

Einstein-Hilbert Equation 99,114,115,116, 174,189,190,192-194,196,198-203,207,221,226,227

Electrolysis 136,155,159

Electromagnetism 100,107,124,127, 180,201,203,204

Electronic configuration 109,119,146

Electrons 102,103,104,105,106,108,109,110,111,115,118,119, 138,145,146,155, 177,187,188,209

Electron clouds 108,161

Electron diffraction 111,167,168,169,187

Electron microscopes 111,155

Electron orbits and shells 104,105,106,108,109, 146,147,159

Electron spin 103,147,148,178

Elements 113,136,138,139,141,142

Emission spectroscopy 102,106, 143,144,145,146,147,149,159,193

Energy from spacetime 234-236

Energy levels 105

Enigmatic Photon 147,157,158,186,186,222

EPR Experiment 113,127,128,129,130,153,188,222

Equivalence principle 189-191,194

Ernst 92

ETH Zurich 90, 91, 92, 93, 99,102,105,115,116,124,137, 173-175,190,195,207

Euclidian geometry 189

Euler, Leonhard Paul 192

Evans, Gareth 165,178,227

Evans, father 215,216

Evans, Larisa 98, 212,214-218,220,

Evans, Laura 85, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 97, 98, 212-215,218,220

Evans, mother 215,216

Fairfax-Somerville Mary 136,189

Far infra red spectroscopy 91, 106,123,177,178,222,223

Faraday Effect 92, 180,196,204

Faraday, Michael 102, 136,139,149,155,159,162, 176,180,181,184,196,203,204

Felker, Lawrence 209,224-226,233

Fermi, Enrico 117,118,120,154

Ferrario, Mauro 87

Feynman, Richard 186,209

Field applied simulation 85, 86, 92, 94

Film ‘The Universe of Myron Evans’ 218

Fizeau, Hippolyte Louis 179

Fitzgerald, George 101,122,123,179

Flinders expedition 176

Football 145,146

Foucault, Leon 179

Foundations of Physics 158,208,210,213

Fowler, Ralph 193

French scientific revolution 135

Fry, Stephen 133

Fullerian professor 162,163

Furry, Wendell 126,127,131

Galileo 102,170,191

Gallipoli 145

Geometry 93, 111, 174,189,190,199202,205,208,210,211

General Leslie groves 119

General relativity 94, 99,101,113,114,115,116,124,125,132,140, 174,189,202,208,210,211,227

Germer 111

Glasgow University 141

God does not play dice 119

Göttingen 99,100,105,114-120,124,125,162,192,225

Gravity 100, 189-191,194,198,201,208,210

Great War 103,104,105,112,113,116,146,194

Grey, Bob 223

Griffin colliery 184

Grigolini 177,178

Grossmann, Marcel 91, 190,192,195,207

Haber cycle 115,116

Haber, Fritz 115, 11

Hachikyan, Alina 217

Hahn, Otto 116,117,184,185,120

Hamilton, William and quanternions 122,123,181,190

Hamilton, William 122,123

Harrison medal 176

Hart, John 99,100,101,124,128,129,131,133,143,220,222,223

Harvard 117,118,119,126,127,143,204

Heaviside, Oliver 101,179,181

Hebrew University 114

Heisenberg 96, 102,106111,113,116,119,120,131,144.145,147,148,149,150,151,152,161,163,168,170, 184-187,208

Heisenberg uncertainty principle 96, 106,107,108,110,117, 147,151,152,153,154,171, 182,186,209

Helium 122,141,183

Hepburn, Katherine 115

Herschel 102

Hewish, Antony 197

Heyes, David 88

High priests of theoretical physics 96, 107,152

Hilbert, David 99,114,115,116,124,162,192

Hill, Professor Alex 233-236

Hitler 113,114.162

Hoffmann, Roald 88, 205

Horwitz, Professor Larry 228-231

Hoyle, Fred 197,203,228

Hulse, Russell Alan 198

Hungary 117,125

Hutchison, J. L. 164,166

Hutton, Alexander Watson (father of Argentinean football) 233

Hydrogen atom 102

IBM 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 93, 220

Indeterminacy 107

Infra red light 109,164,175,180

Institute of Physics 228

International Einstein Year (2005) 236

Inverse Faraday Effect 85, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 158, 176,201,204,205,206,210,220

Iona 122

IQ (film) 133

Ireland 121-123

Isotopes 141,142,170,183

Israel 113,124,128

Italy 90, 112,192

James, John 215

Janssen, Pierre 141

Jeffers, Professor Stanley 214

Jodrell bank 196,197

Joliot, Frédéric 139

Jupiter and its moons 179

Kells, the book of 121,122

Kellum, Charles 230

Kelvin, lord 182,183

Kepler 102,191

Kielich, Stanislaw and Kielich Institute 94, 206

Kings College, London 163

Kingston, New York 84, 85, 86, 87, 88

Kirchhoff 143

Kron, Gabriel 224,225

Kronig, Ralph and electron spin 147

KTH University, Stockholm 207,223

Lagrangian 192,225

Langevin equation 177,178

Langevin, Paul 99,103,104,109,118, 138,139,146,155,192,220

Langevin-Joliot, Dr. Hélène 139

Langmuir trough 227

Laplace, Pierre 136

Lattice energy 115

Lattice imaging electron microscopes 111, 163,164,165,166,167,168,169,170,171, 187-189

Lavoisier 135,136

Lawrence, Ernest 117,118

Lawrence Technological University 230

Lehnert, Professor Bo 156,158,201,207,213,223,224

Lie, George 86

Leipzig 153

Levi-Civita 190,200

Light 110, 204

Light bending around the Sun 103

Limbo 110,144,151,171,194,204

Lindisfarne 122

Lingstrom, Doug 202,230,232

Lithium 122

Lord Ross 155

Lorentz, Hendrik and the Lorentz transform 101,109,122,132,179

Los Alamos 118,119,120,125,126

Lovell, Sir Bernard 197

Lyman, Theodore 143

Mach, Ernst 147,148,152,175

MacLachlan Sean 223

Magdalen College, oxford 121

Magnetism 103,118,137,138,177,178,207

Manhattan Project 100,125,154

Marchi, Kristina 217

Mass spectroscopy 119,141

Manchester University 103,104, 143,144,145,146,149,162,197

Matrix mechanics 96, 106,107,111,119,154,186

Manhattan project 114,117,118,120,185

Matthau, Walter 133

MAUD 118

Maxwell and his equations 100,101,149,154,179,180,181,203,210

McCarthy witch hunts 100,121,126-128,157, 186,223

McGill 103,104,138,140,141,183,184

Measurement problem 110,187,188

Meitner, Lise 118

Meldola medal 176

Memory function 123,178

Mendeleev 145

Michelson and Morley 100,101,179

Microwave spectroscopy 106,123

Milestones in Einsteinian Physics 221

Military Junta 234

Minkowski 91, 115,190

Miracle year (Einstein 1905) 91, 100,104,156,172-178,225

MIT 126

Molecular dynamics 87, 177

Molecular electronics 164,227

Molecular spin 106

Monk, Cecil 184

Moray T. H. 225

Morison, Professor Ian

Morrison, George A. 167

Moscicki, Ignacy 223

Moscicki, President Jozef 223

Moseley, Henry 104,145,146

Moseley’s Law 104

Mosquito bomber 185

Munich 90, 106,112,149,175,225

Napoleon 136

National University of Mexico (UNAM) 234

Nazis 96, 100,113,115,116,120,121,124,126,162,185

Neutrons 117,120,184

Newton 102,107,108,113,136,171,191,193

Niels Bohr institute 120

Nitrogen 142

Nobel Prizes 88, 92, 95, 96, 101,102,104,110,111,116,118,121-126, 137,142,144,146,147,150,153-155,161-163,168,171, 173-175,177,184,186,193,197,200,204-206, 221

Noble gases 142

Noether, Amelie 115,194,198

Noether theorem 115, 192,193,200

Non linear optics 92, 94, 206,222,223

Nuclear chain reaction 117

Nuclear reactor 96

Nuclear magnetic resonance 126

Oak ridge 120,125

Old College 140,228

Oppenheimer, Robert 99,100,117,118,119,120,124,125,126,127,154,155

Optical NMR 89

Orbitals 108, 111,119

Oxford University 149,164,178

Paris 100,103,104,117-119,124, 136-139,146,147,155,156,158,159,171, 177,185,186,188

Pauli, Wolfgang 107-110,117,124,144,147,148,149,151,152,153,156,159,161,171,188

Pelkie, Chris 89

Pendergast, Kerry 165-167,171,196,227-229,236

Periodic table 102,104,108,118, 142,143,145,146,153,159,170,183

Perrin, Jean 103,104,177

Phantom menace 95, 96, 97

Photoelectric Effect 101,140, 173,174,175,193,200, 220

Photoelectron spectroscopy 225

Photons 91, 94, 101,102,105,106,110,127, 128,144,145,150,151,153,157, 186,187,204,207,209,221

Piekara, Arkadeusz 206

Pilot wave 102,105,106,110,119,121,146,171,188

Pioneer anomaly 198,199

Pisa 177,178,190

Planck, Max and Planck’s constant 99,101,107,111,115,117,146,171, 178,186,209,221

Plutonium 96, 154

Poincaré, Jules 179

Polarised light 89, 91, 196,199,201,204,205

Polonium 138

Port Ewen 85, 87, 88

Prigogine, Ilya 206

Prince Louis de Broglie 96, 102-111,118,119,122,124,127,128, 144,146,147,153,155-160,163,171, 186-189,193,209,221-224

Prince Maurice de Broglie 103,104,105,118,122

Probability 108,109,111,116,119,159

Podolsky, Professor Boris 100, 113, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 22,223

Princeton and PIAS 99,100,113,115,120-125,126,127,128,130,133,174,223

Principe Island 195

Probability 208

Proca equation 158

Proton gun 122

Prout, William 141

Pulsars 197,198

Purcell, Edward 126,133

Quantum mechanics 94, 116,125,127,131,132,148,150, 208,210,211

Quantum theory 94, 101,106,107,108,113,116,117,118,125,126,127,132,144-146, 173-175,182,186,193,200,208,221

Radar 126,146

Radio 146

Radioactivity 99,104,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,154,167,183

Radiochemistry 116

Radio communication 104,105

Radium 137,138,141

Ramsay, Sir William 141,142,183,184

Ramsay Fellowship 142

Rayleigh, Lord (John Strutt) 142

Refson, Keith 86, 87

Reid, Colin 227

Reno, Nevada 224

Ricci tensor 190,200,225

Ricci-Curbastro, Gregorio 190

Rice, Stuart 206

Riemann Mathematics and geometry 99,114,115,174,190,192,194,199-201

Roberts, Professor Gareth 164,227,228

Roemer, Ole 178

Röntgen, Wilhelm 137

Roosevelt, President 117,120

Roothaan, Clement 84, 86

Rose Heyworth colliery 184

Rosen 100,113,124,128,129,130,133,222

Rowlinson, Sir John 178

Royal astronomical society 103

Royal Holloway College 87, 88, 178

Royal Institution 116, 136,139,142,159,162,163,164, 183,203,204

Roy, Professor Sisir 214,224

Royal society 103,108,170,193,196

Royal society of chemistry 176,184,206

Royal Swedish academy 207

Rumford, Count 136

Russell, Bertrand 180

Russia 112

Rutherford 101,103,104,108,114,116,117,118,119,120,122,123, 138,140,141,143,144,145,146,149,153,162,183,193,221

Ryan, Meg 133

Rydberg, Johannes 143,144,145,146

Saint Patrick 121

Scheraga, Harold 88, 205

Schrödinger and wave equation 96, 100,102,105-111,113,114,116,119,121,122,123,133, 144,147,148,151,153,154,155,156,158, 178,186,193,200,208,209

, 221,222,224

Seven Crystal Spheres 228

Shelburne, John (US Navy) 235

Shells, electronic 102.109

Siemens 90, 91, 171, 173,175

Singer, Conrad 87, 88, 178

Sobral, Brazil 195

Soddy, Frederick 138,140,141,142,183,184,221,228

Solar eclipse (1915 and 1919) 103,140

Solvay conferences 95, 102,104,105,107-111,118,121,122,124,125,127,131, 138,144,145,147,149,151,152,155-159,161,162,168,170,171, 177,186,188,193,209,221,222,228,236

Solvay photograph 1927) 109

Spacetime 115, 190,191,200,204,205,208,210

Special relativity 101,115,122, 173,174,178-181,190,191,227

Spectral lines 143

Spectroscopy 143, 175

Speed of light 108,122, 178-182

Spin connection resonance 235

Spin field 204-207,210

Spinor 132

St. Andrews´ Scots School, Buenos Aires 233

Standard model 107,111

Stern Gerlach 148

Stoney, George 155

Storey, Michael 227

String theory 144

Swansea 164

SzilárdLeó, 117,118

Technion University 124,127,128

Teller 117,153

Tensor 190,200,202

Tesla, Nikola 225,233

TGA Awards 228-230

Tholian web 144,186

Thomas, Sir John Meurig 139,160,163,164,184

Thomson, George 111

Thomson J. J. 101,104,111.115,117,119,138,140,141,155,162,195

Thorium 140,141

TIME magazine 126

Torsion 189,192,196,199-204,207,208,211

Transmutation 140,183

Transuranic elements 118

Trinity bomb test 154

Trinity College, Dublin 179,190,222

Tube alloys 120

Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit and electron spin 147

UKIRT (United Kingdom Infra Red Telescope) 180

UNCC 212

Uncertainty 110

Unified field theory 84, 121,124, 173,174,189,200,201,203-210

University of Chicago 206

University College London 141,142, 183,184

University of Alberta 232

University of Berkeley 17

University of British Columbia 232

University of Buenos Aires 234

University of Cardiff 228

University of Durham 164,227

University of Edinburgh 116

University of Glasgow 183,184

University of Leeds 162

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) 97, 98, 206

University of Ottawa 232,235

University of Swansea 84

University of Western Sydney 226

University of Würzburg 137

University of Zurich 85, 90, 91, 92, 99,105,114,124,157, 173,204,205,207,208,219,222

Uranium 96, 117,118,120, 137,138,140,141,154,183-185

US Navy 129

Van der Merwe, Professor 157,158,213,230

Vectors 189,190,202

Vibrations 113

Vinci, Leonardo de 210,211

Visualising atoms 96, 108,111,119, 144,145,147,150-153,155,159,160,161,162,163,168,169,170,171

Vigier, Jean Pierre 107,124,128, 147,155,156,157,158,159,171, 185,186,189,207,213,222-224

Viscosity 173,176,177

Vleck, John Van 118,119,126

Von Laue, Max 161,162

Wagniere, George 85, 90, 91, 94, 176,204

Wallace, Alfred 95, 182

Walton, Ernest 118,122,123

Watson, James 163

Watts, John 85, 86

Wave particle duality 101,102,105,106,110, 146,147,150,151,155,163,171, 187-189,193,208

Weber, Wilhelm 180

Wells, H. G. 183,184

Weyl, Hermann 113, 115, 124, 125,153,181

Wheeler 203

Wickramasinghe, Professor 228

Widlar, tom 133

Wigner, Eugene 100,117,120,124,125,129,130,131,133,223

Wilkins, Maurice 163

Williams, Ellis 214,215

Williams, J. O. 164,165

Wilson, Kenneth 88

Wolf Prize 127

World War 2 103,116,118,129,154, 184,185,197

Wozniak, Stanislaw 92

Xavier University 99,100,101,124,128,129,130,131,133, 148,156,220,222,223

X-rays 104,111,118, 137,150,161,164,165,167,171, 186-188

X-ray diffraction and crystallography 104,105,111,160,161,162, 163,165,167,168,170

X-ray spectroscopy 104,105,145.162

Yale 117

York University, Toronto 157,158,207

Zurich 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 116,119,121,124,147, 175,176