George Cowan of Los Alamos National Lab passed away on Friday. He was one of the last remaining original Manhattan Project scientists.
I had the privilege of meeting Dr. Cowan at the home of my graduate school professor, Paul K. Kuroda in the fall of 1977. Several of the department graduate students were always invited to the Kuroda home when important visitors came visiting.
He was a chemist and a graduate of Princeton University. One thing that I did not know about him was that he kept the Santa Fe Opera from bankruptcy with the arrangement of a bank loan several years ago.
The scientific community loses another legend.
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