T
Taming the Atom (von Baeyer)
Tasmanian tiger
Tattersall, Ian
taxonomy; animal world, categories; class; classification of bacteria; classification of plants; disagreements, arbitration of,; family; field of; genus; humans, classification of; life; Linnaean system; magnitude of classifying; number of taxonomists; order; phylum; primates, classifying; species; works of
Taylor, Frank Bursley
telescope
temperature; Earth’s changes of; Fahrenheit and Celsius
Terrible Lizard (Cadbury)
Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, A (Hutton)
thermodynamics; entropy; Gibbs and; laws of; Second Law of
Thomson, J. J.
Thorne, Alan
Thorne, Kip S.
Thorstensen, John
time, general theory of relativity and
Time’s Arrow (Gould)
tin
titanium
Titans of the Deep (film)
Tombaugh, Clyde
Trans-Neptunian Objects
Trefil, James
triangulation.
trilobites,
Trinkaus, Erik
Tryon, Edward P.
tsunami
Tsurutani, Bruce
Turkana, Lake, Kenya
U
ulcers
Uncertainty Principle
U.S. Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
universe: age of; birth of (Big Bang theory); cosmic background radiation; curvature of space; dark energy (vacuum energy, quintessence); dark matter; edge of; emptiness of; end of; expanding; Goldilocks effect; gravity in; inflation theory; ordered self-assembly in; parsec (vs. light-years); planets in, number of; planets, life-sustaining; theory of many universes; size of; visible
uranium; decay rate into lead
Uranus
Urey, Harold
Ussher, James
V
Valéry, Paul
Varuna
Venus: conditions on; lack of tectonic activity; transits of
Vermeer, Jan
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chambers)
Vine, Fred
viruses
Vogel, Shawna
volcanoes: Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska, and; Bruneau-Jarbidge, Idaho; climatic consequences,; Deccan Traps; Galeras, Colombia; caldera; hypertrophic pulmonary osteodystrophy; Krakatau, Indonesia; lack of preparedness; predicting; pyroclastic flow; St. Helens, Washington; supervolcanoes, superplumes; Tambora; Unzen, Japan; Vesuvius, Italy; Yellowstone Park
von Baeyer, Hans Christian
Voorhies, Mike
Voyager 1 amp; 2 craft
Vreeland, Russell
W
Walcott, Charles Doolittle
Walker, Alan
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Walsh, Don
water; chemical formula for; fresh; frozen, qualities of; humans, percentage; lake or ocean, length of time in; molecules; molecules, as rain; oceans, percentage of Earth’s water in; seawater; surface tension; weight of, pressure of,. See also oceans
Watson, James.
Watt, James
weather and climate; cloud types.; evaporation; Holocene period; hurricane; ice ages; lightning; jet streams; meteorology; Milankovitch cycles; oceans and; rain; storm cloud, anvil shape; Tambora eruption, 1816; temperature, measuring; thunderstorms, energy; variables of climate; weight of air in front; wind. See also ice ages
Wegener, Alfred
Weinberg, Samantha
Weinberg, Steven,
Weitz, Charles
whales; ambergris
Whewell, William
White Cliffs of Dover
White, Nathaniel
Whittaker, R. H.
Whittington, Harry
Wickramasinghe, Chandra
Wilberforce, Samuel
Wilford, John
Wilkins, Maurice
Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe
Williams, Stanley
Wilson, Allan
Wilson, Edward O.
Wilson, Robert
Winchester, Simon
wind
Windows into the Earth (Smith amp; Siegel)
Wisdom of Bones, The (Walker)
Wistar, Caspar
wisteria
Witzke, Brian
Woese, Carl
Woit, Peter
Wonderful Life (Gould)
Wren, Christopher
X
X-ray crystallography
X rays
Y
Yakima, Washington
Yellowstone Park; earthquakes,; Emerald Pool; geysers; Hebgen Lake quake; hydrothermal explosions; rockfall, Gardiner Canyon
Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory
Z
Zwicky, Fritz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bill Bryson is the author of numerous works of travel literature. In addition to his bestselling books for Broadway, including A Walk in the Woods, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, In a Sunburned Country, and Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words, he is the author of Mother Tongue, The Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, and Neither Here Nor There. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife, Cynthia, and their children.