Enrico Fermi2 December 1942
Directs Chicago Pile-1 as it achieves the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
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Directs Chicago Pile-1 as it achieves the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
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