movement of particles in, 227
origin of life in, 161–62
as prime entity, 10–11, 13, 37
weight of, 89
waterproofing, 89
Watson, James D., xix, 155, 185–86, 194–98, 199–200, 203, 208
Watson, John Selby, 36
wave mechanics, 233–34
Einstein’s analogies for, 233–34, 233, 234
weather prediction, 254
Wegener, Alfred, 103, 141–48, 149, 152
Weinberg, Steven, xix, 11, 213, 238, 248–50, 251, 252
reading sources for, 251
Wells, H. G., 181–82, 184
Werner, Johannes, 51
What is Life? (Schrödinger), 213, 225, 236–37
reading sources for, 127
Whewell, William, 132
Whiston, William, 111
Whitman, Anne, 102
Wiechert, Emil, 226
Wilkins, Maurice, 194–95
Willis, Robert, 69
“will to live,” preservation of DNA in, 200–203
Wilson, Edmund Beecher, 189
Wilson, E. O., 155, 199, 203–8, 211, 252
wind, 9
Wöhler, Friedrich, 187
Wolpert, Lewis, 5
women:
in astronomy, 240
bias against, 195
World War I, 144, 179, 240
World War II, xix, 146–47
Wren, Christopher, 88
X chromosome, 189–91
Xenophon, 4
X-rays:
discovery of, 136
in DNA pictures, 194–96
genetic information affected by, 192
Y chromosomes, 191
Yucatán coast, crater on, 153
Zeeman, Pieter, 226
Zeus, 23
Zimmer, Carl, 154
Zoological Philosophy (Lamarck), 155, 157, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 169
zoology, 129, 181, 186, 189
Zurich, Polytechnical Institute of, 220
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