Schriever, General Bernard A., 255
Schrödinger, Erwin, 165
Scottish Book, The, 50 f, 107
Scottish Cafe, 33, 35, 49, 93, 107
Segré, Emilio, 162, 164
Selberg, Atle, 244
Serber, Robert, 152
Shannon, Claude, 160, 294
Shapley, Harlow, 124
Shepley, James R., 211, 236
Sierpinski, Waclaw (1882–1969), 21, 25, 40, 44
Smoluchowski, Marian, 294
Society of Fellows (Harvard), 82, 84 ff, 88 f, 100, 113, 118
Socrates, 175, 237
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 30
space vehicles and space exploration, 252 ff
space-time, 183 f, 279, 295, 297
Stebbins, Joel, 144 f, 126, 142
Stein, Myron, 201
Stein, Paul, 201 f
Steinhaus, Hugo (1887–1972), 21 f 29, 32, 35, 41 ff, 50 f, 58, 96, 107, 262, 268 f
Sternbach, Ludwig, 43
Stone, Harlan, 92
Stone, Marshall, 30, 66 f, 91
Stozek, Wlodzimierz, 27, 35 ff, 47 f, 65
Strauss, Admiral Lewis, 210, 221, 223, 237 f, 243
"super," the, see hydrogen bomb
Sylvester, James J., 264
Szilard, Leo, 294
Tamarkin, Jacob David, 94, 99 f, 116
Tarski, Alfred, 29 f, 40, 114, 119, 122
Taschek, Richard, 144
Taylor, Sir Geoffrey, 144
Taylor, Theodore, 221, 256
Teller, Edward, 146 ff, 162, 164, 169, 172, 184 ff, 193, 202, 209 ff, 219 ff, 223, 231, 235 ff, 239, 251, 253, 257
Test Ban Treaty, 251
thermonuclear reactions, 149, 152, 211 ff, 219 ff;
see also hydrogen bomb
thinking process, 22, 178, 180, 184, 289
Thomson, Sir Joseph John, 60
Thucydides, 102, 244
Toll, John, 220
Townes, Charles, 255
Truman, President Harry S., 210 f, 253
Tuck, James, 228 f, 259
Turkevitch, Anthony, 210
Twining Committee, 256
UFO (unidentified flying objects), 301 f
Uhlenbeck, George E., 269
Ulam, Adam (brother), 113 ff, 118, 191
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Ulam, Andrzej (cousin), 72, 115
Ulam, Anna (mother), 9, 15, 113
Ulam, Claire (daughter), 161, 174, 230, 235, 239, 244
Ulam, Françoise (Aron), 44, 125, 133, 145, 161, 174 ff, 178, 189, 190, 215, 230, 239, 244, 260, 262, 269, 270, 272
Ulam, Jozef (father), 9 ff, 18 ff, 113 f
Ulam, Michael(uncle), 56 f, 108
Ulam, S. M.
birth, 9
brain illness, 174 ff
in Cambridge, England, 58 ff
Colorado, University of, 266 ff
doctor's degree, 47
Los Alamos, 141–171, 188–208, 209–224, 249-265
marriage, 125
mathematical curiosity, early, 20 ff
"self-portrait," 271 f
U.S. citizenship, 137 f
World War II, outbreak of, 116
Ulam, Szymon (uncle), 16, 114
University of Colorado, 91, 161, 260
University of Southern California (USC), 173 f, 179, 186
University of Wisconsin, 62, 120, 123, 125
Vassilief, Alexander, 124
Veblen, Oswald, 73 f, 115, 283
Veblen, Thorstein, 74
Verne, Jules, 5, 23, 255, 229
Vienna, 10 f, 56 f, 261
Virgil, 111
Vitali, G., 92
Voltaire, 105, 262
Von Neumann, John, see Neumann, John von
Walden, William, 201
Wang, Hao, 285
Watson, James D., 241, 260, 300
Wavre, Roland, 45 f
Weierstrass, Karl, 55, 282
Weil, André, 133
Weisskopf, Victor F., 152, 162, 168 f, 172, 191, 260 ff, 270
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von, 216
Wells, H. G., 5, 23
Wells, Mark, 201
Weyl, Hermann (1885–1955), 30, 72, 121, 291
Wheeler, John, 215, 220 f
Whitehead, Alfred North (1861–1947), 29, 86, 118 f, 138, 285
Whitehead, Mrs. A. N., 30, 118
Whitney, Hassler, 91
Whyburn, Gordon T., 107
Wiener, Norbert (1894–1964), 45, 91 ff, 109, 137, 160, 294
Wiesner, Jerome, 253 ff, 257
Wigner, Eugene, 112, 124, 160, 277
Woodward, Robert B., 86
Wundheiler, Alexander, 119
Yang, Chen Ning, 294
Young, Lawrence C., 62
Zabuski, Norman, J., 228
Zawirski, Zygmund, 21, 23, 65
Zygmund, Antoni, 38, 93, 96, 270