عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Erroneous ISBN
9780826348708
Erroneous ISBN
9780826348722 (e-book)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the memoirs of George A. Cowan /
First Statement of Responsibility
George A. Cowan.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albuquerque :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of New Mexico Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
175 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cowan, G. A., (George A.),1920-2012.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Los Alamos National Laboratory-- History.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)-- History.
Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe, N.M.)-- History.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Businessmen-- New Mexico-- Los Alamos, Biography.
Chemists-- United States, Biography.
Philanthropists-- United States, Biography.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Los Alamos (N.M.), Biography.
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PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Cowan, G. A., (George A.),1920-2012.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
ProQuest (Firm)
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20171018192100.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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