LEADER 03364nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910457302903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-63673-5 010 $a0-8263-4872-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051090 035 $a(EBL)1118998 035 $a(OCoLC)817819367 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538889 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331464 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538889 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10569412 035 $a(PQKB)11611510 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1118998 035 $a(OCoLC)760158118 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1118998 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492218 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394919 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051090 100 $a20090728d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute$b[electronic resource] $ethe memoirs of George A. Cowan /$fGeorge A. Cowan 210 $aAlbuquerque $cUniversity of New Mexico Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8263-4870-X 327 $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. 330 $aCowan relates the details of his unique scientific career. 606 $aChemists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBusinessmen$zNew Mexico$zLos Alamos$vBiography 606 $aPhilanthropists$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aLos Alamos (N.M.)$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChemists 615 0$aBusinessmen 615 0$aPhilanthropists 676 $a540.92 676 $aB 700 $aCowan$b G. A$g(George A.),$f1920-2012.$060906 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457302903321 996 $aManhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute$92033670 997 $aUNINA