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1st Nuclear Reactor

Hungary · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1942

Eugene Paul Wigner2 December 1942

Chicago · Science / Technology

Present at the opening of the 1st nuclear reactor at the University of Chicago

Names involved

Eugene Paul Wigner

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