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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemists--United States--Biography.
- Chemists.
- Businessmen--New Mexico--Los Alamos--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Philanthropists--United States--Biography.
- Philanthropists.
- Los Alamos (N.M.)--Biography.
- Los Alamos (N.M.).
- Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.
- Manhattan Project (U.S.).
- Los Alamos National Laboratory--History.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)--History.
- Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.).
- Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012.
- Cowan, G. A.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.
- Contents:
- My early environment
- The world outside our yard
- Movies and vaudeville
- Finding a role
- The deepening Depression
- My high school years
- Undergraduate years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Entering a new world
- Prologue to the Manhattan Project
- I go to the "Met Lab"
- My visit to Oak Ridge
- Nuclear physics research at Columbia University
- Photo gallery
- I go to Los Alamos
- The Pittsburgh years
- I return to Los Alamos
- The hydrogen bomb
- New heavy elements
- Thermonuclear testing, 1954-1955
- Life at Los Alamos in the 1950s
- The nuclear intelligence community
- The Oppenheimer hearings
- Los Alamos becomes privately owned
- Banking at Los Alamos
- Poker and theoretical physics
- Project Gnome : the add-on wheel experiment
- Duplicating Mike neutron exposure
- U.S.-U.K. Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry
- International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia
- Photo gallery II
- A trip to the North Pole
- Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka
- The Oklo natural reactor
- Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes
- The solar neutrino program
- Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica
- The White House Science Council
- Simplicity and complexity
- Photo gallery III
- The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins
- SFI becomes operational
- Behavioral science
- My interest in early mental development
- What have I learned?
- What lies ahead?
- Power and complexity.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283636735
- 1283636735
- 9780826348722
- 0826348726
- OCLC:
- 817819367
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