Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe In...
Cowan, G. A. (1920-)

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  • Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute = the memoirs of George A. Cowan /
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    Title/Author: Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute/ George 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.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: Philanthropists - Biography. - United States -
    Subject: Los Alamos (N.M.) - Biography. -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826348722/Full text available:
    ISBN: 9780826348722 (electronic bk.)
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