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, 174,182,189,196,199202,204,205,207,208,219,221,222
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, 151,152157,159,161,163,170,171, 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,
174,181,182,186,187,193,195-199,202-208,210,216226,229,230,232,233,235,236
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, 172-182,185196,198,199-209,219-228,236
Einstein, Elsa 174,192
Einstein, Hermann 90, 114,149,173,175
Einstein-Hilbert Equation 99,114,115,116, 174,189,190,192-194,196,198203,207,221,226,227
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,
102,106111,113,116,119,120,131,144.145,147,148,149,150,151,152,161,163,1
68,170, 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, 173175,177,184,186,193,197,200,204-206, 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 107110,117,124,144,147,148,149,151,152,153,156,159,161,171,188
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, 101,106,107,108,113,116,117,118,125,126,127,132,144146, 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, 100,102,105111,113,114,116,119,121,122,123,133, 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, 144,145,147,150153,155,159,160,161,162,163,168,169,170,171
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