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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
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
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
New Program Explores University of Chicago’s Role in Manhattan Project On December 2, 1942, Compton, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and 48 other Manhattan Project scientists and workers witnessed Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, go critical under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago
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 Members of the Chicago Pile team gathered on Dec 2, 1946, to mark the fourth anniversary of the first self-sustained chain reaction Fermi is at left in the front row; Szilard is the third from the right