Book ID: CBB001032625

Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan (2010)

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Cowan, G. A. (Author)


University of New Mexico Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 175 pp.; ill.; index
Language: English

Description On the nuclear physicist active from the 1940s to the 1980s.


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Review Thomas, William (2011) Review of "Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 581). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Machado, Cristina de Amorim
Lamarão, Sérgio Tadeu de Niemeyer
Arnold-Forster, Agnes
Barboza, Christina Helena da Motta
Gavrus, Delia Elena
Tschinkel, Walter R.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Diplomatic History
Publishers
Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA)
Oregon State University
World Scientific
University of New Mexico Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Pi Press
Concepts
Biographies
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Societies; institutions; academies
Physics
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Nierenberg, William Aaron
Wheeler, John Archibald
Trahiotis, Constantine
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William
Rotblat, Joseph
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Warsaw (Poland)
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
Washington, D. C. (U.S.)
England
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Ministério da Ciência, Technologia, e Inovação
Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA)
Pico dos Dias Observatory
University of California, Berkeley
Carnegie Institute of Technology
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