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Adventures in Physics and Pueblo Pottery: Memoirs of a Los Alamos Scientist
Francis H. Harlow
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Hardcover. In this memoir, Harlow describes his life growing up in Washington state, service in the US Army during World War II, college years, and his fifty-year career as a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Num Pages: 204 pages, 71 colour & 24 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JJ; 3JM; ACBP; AFP; BM; PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 266 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1114.
Francis H Harlow (1928-present) is a world class physicist, an expert on Pueblo Indian pottery and Southwest sea fossils, an accomplished painter and cellist. In this memoir, the retired Los Alamos scientist and scholar looks back on his life and career, including his fifty years as a theoretical physicist at one of the U.S.'s top research facilities. He considers his study of Pueblo pottery a hobby , though it draws on archaeology, history and ethnography, as well as interactions and interviews with living and deceased potters (including Maria Martinez). This book highlights the Museum of Indian Art (Santa Fe) ... Read more
Francis H Harlow (1928-present) is a world class physicist, an expert on Pueblo Indian pottery and Southwest sea fossils, an accomplished painter and cellist. In this memoir, the retired Los Alamos scientist and scholar looks back on his life and career, including his fifty years as a theoretical physicist at one of the U.S.'s top research facilities. He considers his study of Pueblo pottery a hobby , though it draws on archaeology, history and ethnography, as well as interactions and interviews with living and deceased potters (including Maria Martinez). This book highlights the Museum of Indian Art (Santa Fe) ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1114 g
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
New Mexico, United States
ISBN
9780890136157
SKU
V9780890136157
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About Francis H. Harlow
Francis H Harlow is a leading authority on Pueblo ceramics. A physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratories, he is the author of eight books. Dwight P Lanmon, research associate at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and the School of American Research, is former CEO and director of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
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