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Cowan, G. A. (1920-)

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institutethe memoirs of George A. Cowan /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe InstituteGeorge A. Cowan.
Reminder of title:	the memoirs of George A. Cowan /
Author:	Cowan, G. A.
Published:	Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (175 p.) :ill.
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	PhilanthropistsBiography.United States
Subject:	Los Alamos (N.M.)Biography.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780826348722 (electronic bk.)

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institutethe memoirs of George A. Cowan /
Cowan, G. A.1920-

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institutethe memoirs of George A. Cowan /[electronic resource] :George A. Cowan. - Albuquerque :University of New Mexico Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (175 p.) :ill.

Includes index.

My early environment -- The world outside our yard -- Movies and vaudeville -- Finding a role-- The deepening Depression -- My high schoolyears -- 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.

ISBN: 9780826348722 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

622389
Cowan, G. A.
1920-Subjects--Corporate Names:

622390
Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)
--History.Subjects--Topical Terms:

451544
Philanthropists
--United States--Biography.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

622392
Los Alamos (N.M.)
--Biography.

LC Class. No.: QD22.C69 / A3 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 540.92

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