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Manhattan Project to the Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A.Cowan
George A. Cowan
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Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 184 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: BM; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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. Down the hall, on the door of the cyclotron control room, a sign warned, 'Don't let Dick Feynman in. He takes tools.' On that day, the future Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman needed a piece from his new officemate's phone, so he borrowed it without even introducing himself. Cowan's memoir is an engaging eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as human beings, work as well. In ... Read more
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. Down the hall, on the door of the cyclotron control room, a sign warned, 'Don't let Dick Feynman in. He takes tools.' On that day, the future Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman needed a piece from his new officemate's phone, so he borrowed it without even introducing himself. Cowan's memoir is an engaging eyewitness account of how science works and how scientists, as human beings, work as well. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
475g
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826348708
SKU
V9780826348708
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About George A. Cowan
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 ... Read more
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