- Chicago Pile-1 - Wikipedia
The success of Chicago Pile-1 in producing the chain reaction provided the first vivid demonstration of the feasibility of the military use of nuclear energy by the Allies, as well as the reality of the danger that Nazi Germany could succeed in producing nuclear weapons
- The first nuclear reactor, explained - University of Chicago News
In 1942, Enrico Fermi and a group of scientists gathered beneath the football stands at the University of Chicago to feverishly work on a secret experiment—to achieve the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction—that would that would change the world forever
- The Experimental Nuclear Reactor Secretly Built Under the University of . . .
The small reactor was built at the University of Chicago as an arm of the infamous Manhattan Project, based in New York At the head of the project was visionary Italian physicist Enrico
- The First Pile - Atomic Archive
On December 2, 1942, in a racquets court underneath the West Stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi created man's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
- Chicago, IL - U. S. National Park Service
Led by Arthur Compton, the Met Lab assembled a team of scientists that included Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, the youngest member and only female member of the team
- A Quiet Start to the Atomic Age - Chicago History Museum
On December 2, 1942, a team of scientists at the University of Chicago silently sipped Chianti from paper cups under the west bleachers of Stagg Field They had just achieved the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
- Chicago Pile-1 | Los Alamos National Laboratory - lanl. gov
Eighty years ago on a bitter-cold December day in 1942, scientists gathered at an abandoned squash court at the University of Chicago where they would ultimately enable a secret lab in Los Alamos to change the world
- December 2, 1942: First self-sustained nuclear chain reaction
Against a backdrop of growing global political unrest, a series of revolutionary breakthroughs in nuclear physics set the stage for a high-stakes race to build the first atomic bomb and put an end to World War II
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