Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute the memoirs of George A. Cowan /
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
c2010.
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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.