Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan
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| Autore: |
Cowan G. A (George A.), <1920-2012.>
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| Titolo: |
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / / George A. Cowan
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| Pubblicazione: | Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 geografico: | Los Alamos (N.M.) Biography |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute |
| ISBN: | 9781283636735 |
| 1283636735 | |
| 9780826348722 | |
| 0826348726 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910956630203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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