Dr. George Cowan

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Dr. Cowan is currently employed as Chairman of the Board of the Trinity Capital Corporation which operates a national bank. He is senior-fellow emeritus at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and retired founding president of the Santa Fe Institute.
D.Sc. (Physical Chemistry) Carnegie-Mellon University.
Fellow of the American Physical Society and the AAAS; a member and former division chairman of the American Chemical Society and member of Sigma Xi.
Awards: the E.O. Lawrence Award, 1965 and the Enrico Fermi Award (a prestigious honor for outstanding scientific achievement in the field of atomic energy, whose previous recipients include John von Neumann and J. Robert Oppenheimer), 1990, among other awards.
Most recent book: Complexity -- Metaphors, Models, and Reality, Editors Cowan, Pines, and Meltzer, Addison-Wesley (1994).
Most recent scientific work: Double Beta Decay of U-238, by Turkevich, Economou, and Cowan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67,3211(1991).
Dr. Cowan's current principal academic activity as a visiting scientist at the Santa Fe Institute is in the field of mental development of very young children and the effects of early intervention. He continues to be active in the field of banking and investment.
``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. -- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop, p.336, Viking, 1992.'' Dr. Cowan's pastimes are hiking, swimming, skiing, and flyfishing.