Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan |
Autore | Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
Disciplina |
540.92
B |
Soggetto topico |
Chemists - United States
Businessmen - New Mexico - Los Alamos Philanthropists - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-63673-5
0-8263-4872-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457302903321 |
Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.>
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 | ||
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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan |
Autore | Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
Disciplina |
540.92
B |
Soggetto topico |
Chemists - United States
Businessmen - New Mexico - Los Alamos Philanthropists - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-63673-5
0-8263-4872-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781619303321 |
Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.>
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [[electronic resource] ] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan |
Autore | Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
Disciplina |
540.92
B |
Soggetto topico |
Chemists - United States
Businessmen - New Mexico - Los Alamos Philanthropists - United States |
ISBN |
1-283-63673-5
0-8263-4872-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807459203321 |
Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.>
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Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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