Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan.
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 175 p. :; ill. |
Notes: | Includes index. |
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100 | 1 | |a Cowan, G. A. |q (George A.), |d 1920-2012. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute |h [electronic resource] : |b the memoirs of George A. Cowan / |c George A. Cowan. |
260 | |a Albuquerque : |b University of New Mexico Press, |c c2010. | ||
300 | |a 175 p. : |b ill. | ||
500 | |a Includes index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
600 | 1 | 0 | |a Cowan, G. A. |q (George A.), |d 1920-2012. |
610 | 2 | 0 | |a Manhattan Project (U.S.) |x History. |
610 | 2 | 0 | |a Los Alamos National Laboratory |x History. |
610 | 2 | 0 | |a Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) |x History. |
650 | 0 | |a Chemists |z United States |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Businessmen |z New Mexico |z Los Alamos |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Philanthropists |z United States |v Biography. | |
651 | 0 | |a Los Alamos (N.M.) |v Biography. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
710 | 2 | |a ProQuest (Firm) | |
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