Manhattan Project to Santa Fe Institute: The Memoirs of George A. Cowan

by George A. Cowan

Book Overview

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 office mate's phone, so he borrowed it without even introducing himself.

Cowan's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082634870X
• ISBN13: 9780826348708
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"