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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 : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
- Author
- Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- 175 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Los Alamos National Laboratory History
- Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) History
- Philanthropists > United States > Biography
- Los Alamos (N.M.) > Biography
- Chemists > United States > Biography
- Manhattan Project (U.S.) History
- Cowan, G. A (George A.), 1920-
- Businessmen > New Mexico > Los Alamos > Biography
- Note
- Includes index.
- 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 -- 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.
- Call Number
- JSE 13-79
- ISBN
- 9780826348708 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 082634870X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009030992
- OCLC
- 429634771
- Author
- Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-
- Title
- Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
- Imprint
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 13-79