Manhattan Project to Santa Fe Institute - Cowan, George A
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The telephone lay in pieces on George Cowan's office desk in the basement of Princeton's physics building. It was his first day as a graduate student in the fall of 1941. This memoir is his eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as human beings, work as well. It also discusses his career in nuclear physics.

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The telephone lay in pieces on George Cowan's office desk in the basement of Princeton's physics building. It was his first day as a graduate student in the fall of 1941. This memoir is his eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as human beings, work as well. It also discusses his career in nuclear physics.
Autorenporträt
George A. Cowan is a physical chemist who received his doctorate from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1949. He worked for thirty-nine years at Los Alamos National Laboratory. During the 1980s he served on the White House council of science advisers. Among his honors are the Enrico Fermi Award, the E. O. Lawrence Award, the Robert H. Goddard Award, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal.