Permanent historical factsheet

Dragon Prompt Critical Experiment

Austria · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

1Records
1945Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1945

Otto Robert Frisch18 January 1945

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Frisch's Dragon experiment produces the first assembly made prompt critical by neutrons alone, using uranium hydride at Los Alamos.

Names involved

Otto Robert Frisch

Provenance

This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.