April 20, 2012 10:01 PM

Manhattan Project scientist Cowan dies at 92

FILE- In this 2005 file photo, Scientist George Cowan addresses a Los Alamos National Laboratory colloquium, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Cowan worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for nearly 40 years. He started in 1949 as a scientist and went on to serve as a director of chemistry and as associate lab director of research. Cowan was a chemist whose influence touched everything from the Manhattan Project and the hunt for evidence of the Soviet Union's first nuclear tests to the Santa Fe Institute and the iconic Santa Fe Opera. Cowan died April 20, 2012 at his home in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was 92. (AP Photo/Los Alamos National Laboratory, File)

(AP) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Devoted to finding a way for science to help society, not much escaped the influence of chemist George Cowan. From the Manhattan Project and the hunt for evidence of the Soviet Union's first nuclear tests, to the Santa Fe Institute and the iconic Santa Fe Opera, friends recalled the fruits of his visionary ways.
Cowan died Friday at his home in Los Alamos. He was 92.

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