03096nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10492218 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090728s2010 nmua s 001 0aeng d 2009030992 9780826348708 9780826348722 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)759158355 n-us--- n-us-nm QD22.C69 A3 2010eb 540.92 B 22 Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012. Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute [electronic resource] : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2010. 175 p. : ill. Includes index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Cowan, G. A. (George A.), 1920-2012. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10492218 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 125841 125841