TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cowan,G.A.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: the memoirs of George A. Cowan 
AV  - QD22.C69 A3 2010eb
U1  - 540.92B 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Albuquerque
PB  - University of New Mexico Press
KW  - Cowan, G. A.
KW  - Manhattan Project (U.S.)
KW  - History
KW  - Los Alamos National Laboratory
KW  - Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)
KW  - Chemists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Businessmen
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Los Alamos
KW  - Philanthropists
KW  - Los Alamos (N.M.)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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