Ebook: Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute : the memoirs of George A. Cowan
Author: Cowan G. A., Cowan G. A., Cowan George A.
- Tags: Cowan G A George 1920 2012 Chemists United States Biography Manhattan Project U S History Los Alamos National Laboratory Santa Fe Institute N M Businessmen New Mexico Philanthropists BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Science Technology SCIENCE Chemistry General
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- City: Albuquerque, Los Alamos (N.M.), United States, New Mexico
- Language: English
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"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 Read more...