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Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.> |
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Titolo |
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan |
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
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1-283-63673-5 |
0-8263-4872-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Chemists - United States |
Businessmen - New Mexico - Los Alamos |
Philanthropists - United States |
Electronic books. |
Los Alamos (N.M.) Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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