Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute
Subtitle: the memoirs of George A. Cowan
By: George A. Cowan.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826348708
Subjects: Cowan, G. A. -- 1920-; Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History; Los Alamos National Laboratory -- History; Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.) -- History; Chemists -- United States -- Biography; Businessmen -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Biography; Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography; Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My early environment; title: The world outside our yard; title: Movies and vaudeville; title: Finding a role; title: The deepening Depression; title: My high school years; title: Undergraduate years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; title: Entering a new world; title: Prologue to the Manhattan Project; title: I go to the "Met Lab"; title: My visit to Oak Ridge; title: Nuclear physics research at Columbia University; title: Photo gallery; title: I go to Los Alamos; title: The Pittsburgh years; title: I return to Los Alamos; title: The hydrogen bomb; title: New heavy elements; title: Thermonuclear testing, 1954-1955; title: Life at Los Alamos in the 1950s; title: The nuclear intelligence community; title: The Oppenheimer hearings; title: Los Alamos becomes privately owned; title: Banking at Los Alamos; title: Poker and theoretical physics; title: Project Gnome : the add-on wheel experiment; title: Duplicating Mike neutron exposure; title: U.S.-U.K. Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry; title: International symposium, heavy ion physics, Dubna, Russia; title: Photo gallery II; title: A trip to the North Pole; title: Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka; title: The Oklo natural reactor; title: Disposal of high-level radioactive wastes; title: The solar neutrino program; title: Atmospheric dynamics around Antarctica; title: The White House Science Council; title: Simplicity and complexity; title: Photo gallery III; title: The Santa Fe Institute : its intellectual origins; title: SFI becomes operational; title: Behavioral science; title: My interest in early mental development; title: What have I learned?; title: What lies ahead?; title: Power and complexity.