Cowan, G. A.  1920-2012. <br/><br/>
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute  the memoirs of George A. Cowan /  [electronic resource] : 
George A. Cowan. 
 - Albuquerque :  University of New Mexico Press,  c2010. 
 - 175 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Cowan, G. A. 1920-2012. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.<br/>Los Alamos National Laboratory--History.<br/>Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Chemists--United States--Biography.<br/>Businessmen--New Mexico--Los Alamos--Biography.<br/>Philanthropists--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Los Alamos (N.M.)--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QD22.C69  / A3 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>540.92  B