Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
2010
QD22.C69 A3 2010
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Title
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan / George A. Cowan.
ISBN
9780826348722 (electronic bk.)
0826348726 (electronic bk.)
9780826348708 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082634870X (cloth ; alk. paper)
0826348726 (electronic bk.)
9780826348708 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082634870X (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
QD22.C69 A3 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)760158118
Summary
"George Cowan's memoir is an engaging eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as people, work as well. In discussing his career in nuclear physics from the 1940s into the 1980s, Cowan talks about some of his assignments in nuclear forensics, including President Harry Truman's skeptical review of the analysis of Russia's first atomic bomb test in 1949. Throughout his book, Cowan weaves in intriguing anecdotes about a large cast of distinguished scientists - all related in his concise, wry manner."--Jacket
Note
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note
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
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.
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
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.
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