COMPLEXITY SCIENCE

grew out of the ashes
of the first atomic bomb.

George Cowan, who worked on the Manhattan Project, and Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the quark, had dedicated their lives to unlocking the mysteries of the atom.

But with the advent of the atomic age, which they helped usher in, they saw the urgent need for new science to grapple with the promise and terrors of an increasingly complex world.

Together with their friends and colleagues, they founded the Santa Fe Institute in 1984, across the valley from Los Alamos, where the A-bomb was born.

Today, the Institute is the global headquarters for complexity science.

On any given day, you might find astronauts from NASA, game designers, science fiction authors, researchers from Google, or representatives from world governments, all seeking insight into the complex systems they occupy

They are stretching the limits of human understanding and transforming how we view the world.