03330nam 2200613 a 450 991080745920332120230725051453.01-283-63673-50-8263-4872-6(CKB)2550000000051090(EBL)1118998(OCoLC)817819367(SSID)ssj0000538889(PQKBManifestationID)11331464(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538889(PQKBWorkID)10569412(PQKB)11611510(MiAaPQ)EBC1118998(OCoLC)760158118(MdBmJHUP)muse4747(Au-PeEL)EBL1118998(CaPaEBR)ebr10492218(CaONFJC)MIL394919(EXLCZ)99255000000005109020090728d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrManhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute[electronic resource] the memoirs of George A. Cowan /George A. CowanAlbuquerque University of New Mexico Pressc20101 online resource (185 p.)Includes index.0-8263-4870-X 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.Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.ChemistsUnited StatesBiographyBusinessmenNew MexicoLos AlamosBiographyPhilanthropistsUnited StatesBiographyLos Alamos (N.M.)BiographyChemistsBusinessmenPhilanthropists540.92BCowan G. A(George A.),1920-2012.60906MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807459203321Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute4026428UNINA