MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aCowan, G. A.$q(George A.),$d1920-
245 10 $aManhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute :$bthe memoirs of George A. Cowan /$cGeorge A. Cowan.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$cc2010.
300 $a175 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $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.
600 10 $aCowan, G. A.$q(George A.),$d1920-
650 0 $aChemists$zUnited States$vBiography.
610 20 $aManhattan Project (U.S.)$xHistory.
610 20 $aLos Alamos National Laboratory$xHistory.
610 20 $aSanta Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zNew Mexico$zLos Alamos$vBiography.
651 0 $aLos Alamos (N.M.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aPhilanthropists$zUnited States$vBiography.