Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe In...
Cowan, G. A. (1920-)

 

  • Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute[electronic resource] :the memoirs of George A. Cowan /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 540.92
    書名/作者: Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan // George A. Cowan.
    作者: Cowan, G. A.
    出版者: Albuquerque : : University of New Mexico Press,, c2010.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (175 p.) : : ill.
    附註: Includes index.
    標題: Philanthropists - Biography. - United States
    標題: Businessmen - Biography. - New Mexico
    標題: Chemists - Biography. - United States
    標題: Los Alamos (N.M.) - Biography.
    ISBN: 9780826348722 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0826348726 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780826348708 (hbk.)
    ISBN: 082634870X (hbk.)
    內容註: My early environment -- The world outside our yard -- Movies and vaudeville -- Finding a role-- The deepening Depression -- My high schoolyears -- 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.
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