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Cowan</b></font><p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/563/000106245/" class=proflink>15-Feb</a>-<a href="/lists/919/000105604/" class=proflink>1920</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/786/000069579/" class=proflink>Worcester, MA</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/994/000106676/" class=proflink>20-Apr</a>-<a href="/lists/634/000277800/" class=proflink>2012</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/531/000141108/" class=proflink>Los Alamos, NM</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> unspecified<br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/629/000096341/" class=proflink>Physicist</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Founder, Santa Fe Institute<p>"Cowan was the one who had conceived the Institute in the first place. He was the one who had envisioned a science of complexity before anyone had even known what to call it. He was the one who had done more than anyone else to make the Santa Fe Institute happen, to make it the most intellectually exciting place that any of them had ever been in." (Mitchell Waldrop, <i>Complexity</i>).<p><b>Wife:</b> Helen Siegel Dunham<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/661/000082415/">BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1941)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/549/000068345/">Physics Dept., Princeton University (during WWII)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/520/000068316/">Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago (during WWII)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/530/000068326/">PhD, Carnegie Institute of Technology (1950)</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/244/000165746/">Regent, New Mexico Institute of Technology</a><br> Administrator: <a href="/edu/255/000160772/">President, Santa Fe Institute (1984-91)</a><br><p> <a href="/org/205/000165707/">Los Alamos National Laboratory</a> (1949-88)<br> <u>Los Alamos National Bank</u> Founder (1963)<br> Member of the Board of <u>Los Alamos National Bank</u> (as Chairman, 1965-95)<br> Member of the Board of <u>Trinity Capital Corporation</u> (as Chairman)<br> <a href="/org/811/000055646/">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> 1997<br> <a href="/org/790/000055625/">American Chemical Society</a> <br> <a href="/org/496/000071283/">American Physical Society</a> <br> <a href="/org/516/000169009/">Friends of Joe Lieberman</a> <br> <a href="/org/952/000172436/">Joe Lieberman for President</a> <br> <u>National Center for Genome Resources</u> <br> <u>Santa Fe Opera</u> Trustee<br> <a href="/org/430/000172911/">Science Debate 2008</a> <br> <a href="/org/457/000041334/">Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society</a> <br> <a href="/group/738/000055573/">Manhattan Project</a> <br> <a href="/honors/203/000165705/">E. O. Lawrence Award</a> 1965<br> <a href="/honors/279/000099979/">Enrico Fermi Award</a> 1990<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=165708"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=165708">George A. 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