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100 1 _aCowan, G. A.
_q(George A.),
_d1920-2012.
245 1 0 _aManhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe memoirs of George A. Cowan /
_cGeorge A. Cowan.
260 _aAlbuquerque :
_bUniversity of New Mexico Press,
_cc2010.
300 _a175 p. :
_bill.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aMy 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 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
600 1 0 _aCowan, G. A.
_q(George A.),
_d1920-2012.
610 2 0 _aManhattan Project (U.S.)
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aLos Alamos National Laboratory
_xHistory.
610 2 0 _aSanta Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aChemists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aBusinessmen
_zNew Mexico
_zLos Alamos
_vBiography.
650 0 _aPhilanthropists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
651 0 _aLos Alamos (N.M.)
_vBiography.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10492218
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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