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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : The Memoirs of George A. Cowan.
Title:
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : The Memoirs of George A. Cowan.
Author:
Cowan, George.
ISBN:
9780826348722
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (185 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1: My Early Environment -- 2: The World Outside Our Yard -- 3: Movies and Vaudeville -- 4: Finding a Role -- 5: The Deepening Depression -- 6: My High School Years -- 7: Undergraduate Years at Worcester Polytechnic Institute -- 8: Entering a New World -- 9: Prologue to the Manhattan Project -- 10: I Go to the "Met Lab" -- 11: My Visit to Oak Ridge -- 12: Nuclear Physics Research at Columbia University -- 13: I Go to Los Alamos -- 14: The Pittsburgh Years -- 15: I Return to Los Alamos -- 16: The Hydrogen Bomb -- 17: New Heavy Elements -- 18: Thermonuclear Testing,1954 -1955 -- 19: Life at Los Alamos in the 1950s -- 20: The Nuclear Intelligence Community -- 21: The Oppenheimer Hearings -- 22: Los Alamos Becomes Privately Owned -- 23: Banking at Los Alamos -- 24: Poker and Theoretical Physics -- 25: Project Gnome: The Add-on Wheel Experiment -- 26: Duplicating Mike Neutron Exposure -- 27: U.S.-U.K. Joint Working Group for Radiochemistry -- 28: International Symposium, Heavy Ion Physics, Dubna, Russia -- 29: A Trip to the North Pole -- 30: Down the Aleutian Islands to Amchitka -- 31: The Oklo Natural Reactor -- 32: Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes -- 33: The Solar Neutrino Program -- 34: Atmospheric Dynamics Around Antarctica -- 35: The White House Science Council -- 36: Simplicity and Complexity -- 37: The Santa Fe Institute:Its Intellectual Origins -- 38: SFI Becomes Operational -- 39: Behavioral Science -- 40: My Interest in Early Mental Development -- 41: What Have I Learned? -- 42: What Lies Ahead? -- 43: Power and Complexity -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Cowan relates the details of his unique scientific career.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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