| George A. Cowan Born: 15-Feb-1920
Birthplace: Worcester, MA
Died: 20-Apr-2012
Location of death: Los Alamos, NM
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Founder, Santa Fe Institute "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, Complexity). Wife: Helen Siegel Dunham
University: BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1941)
University: Physics Dept., Princeton University (during WWII)
University: Metallurgical Laboratory, University of Chicago (during WWII)
University: PhD, Carnegie Institute of Technology (1950)
Administrator: Regent, New Mexico Institute of Technology
Administrator: President, Santa Fe Institute (1984-91)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (1949-88)
Los Alamos National Bank Founder (1963)
Member of the Board of Los Alamos National Bank (as Chairman, 1965-95)
Member of the Board of Trinity Capital Corporation (as Chairman)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1997
American Chemical Society
American Physical Society
Friends of Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman for President
National Center for Genome Resources
Santa Fe Opera Trustee
Science Debate 2008
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Manhattan Project
E. O. Lawrence Award 1965
Enrico Fermi Award 1990
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