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Uranium Graphite Lattice Experiments

Italy · Science / Nuclear Power. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940

Enrico Fermi1940

New York · Science / Nuclear Power

Conducts increasingly large uranium and graphite lattice experiments to determine the neutron economy required for a chain-reacting pile.

Names involved

Enrico Fermi

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