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

Title
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [electronic resource] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
Author
Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.

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1 online resource (175 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute (Online)
Alternative Title
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute (Online)
Subject
  • Cowan, G. A. 1920-2012
  • Manhattan Project (U.S.) > History
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory > History
  • Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) > History
  • Chemists > United States > Biography
  • Businessmen > New Mexico > Los Alamos > Biography
  • Philanthropists > United States > Biography
  • Los Alamos (N.M.) > Biography
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  • Includes index.
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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.
LCCN
2009030992
OCLC
ssj0000538889
Author
Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012.
Title
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [electronic resource] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010.
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