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

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	the memoirs of George A. Cowan
[NT 47261] Author:	CowanG. A., 1920-
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Albuquerque
[NT 47263] Published:	University of New Mexico Press;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	c2010
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource (175 p.)ill. :
[NT 47266] Subject:	Philanthropists - Biography - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Businessmen - Biography - New Mexico -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Chemists - Biography - United States -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Los Alamos (N.M.) -
[NT 51399] Personal Subject:	Cowan - G. A. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826348722/
[NT 47265] Notes:	Includes index
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780826348722electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0826348726electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780826348708hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	082634870Xhbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	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 dyclmics 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

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

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (175 p.) ; ill..
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 dyclmics 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.
Includes index.
ISBN 9780826348722ISBN 0826348726ISBN 9780826348708ISBN 082634870X
PhilanthropistsBusinessmenChemists -- Biography -- Biography -- Biography -- United States -- New Mexico -- United States

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