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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 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
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, 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
New Program Explores University of Chicago’s Role in Manhattan Project The Atomic Heritage Foundation (AHF) has produced a new “Ranger in Your Pocket” online program on the University of Chicago’s role in the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to produce an atomic bomb during World War II The program features thirty audio visual vignettes
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
First nuclear reaction - University of Chicago A team of scientists, engineers and staff gathered at the University of Chicago in 1942 Led by Enrico Fermi, one of many scientists who had fled fascism in Europe, they worked day and night to build the world’s first nuclear reactor—a 20-foot-tall structure of graphite and uranium known as Chicago Pile-1