Home›Nuclear Pioneers›All Nuclear PioneersBrowse ByAll Nuclear PioneersReference and ClassificationDevelopingGathers the historical-figure entities profiled for their role in developing nuclear power, including the physicists whose research made nuclear fission usable as an energy source and the engineers who designed early nuclear reactors and power plants. Each entry covers a specific individual rather than a reactor design or a power plant, which are filed under their own respective types elsewhere in the atlas, one level up from this pioneer grouping.FactsAll Nuclear PioneersSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1942 1All Nuclear PioneersFilter Results56 entriesEraAll1852 (1)1867 (1)1878 (1)1879 (1)1880 (1)1885 (1)1891 (1)1892 (2)1895 (1)1896 (1)1897 (3)1898 (1)1899 (2)1900 (2)1901 (5)1902 (3)1903 (2)1904 (2)1905 (1)1906 (2)1908 (2)1909 (2)1912 (3)1913 (2)1914 (2)1915 (2)1919 (1)1920 (1)1921 (1)1922 (1)1927 (1)1928 (1)1939 (1)1960 (1)1999 (1)Associated Energy SourceAllNuclear Fusion (5)Nuclear Power (16)Uranium (3)NationalityAllAustria (1)Canada (1)Denmark (1)France (7)Germany (4)Hungary (3)Israel (1)Italy (1)Poland (1)Russia (6)Serbia (1)South Africa (1)Soviet Union (3)Sweden (1)United Kingdom (7)United States (21)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 56Abram IoffeNuclear PioneersAlvin M. WeinbergNuclear PioneersAlvin RadkowskyNuclear PioneersAnatoly AlexandrovNuclear PioneersAndrei SakharovNuclear PioneersArthur ComptonNuclear PioneersBertrand GoldschmidtNuclear PioneersBogdan MaglichNuclear PioneersChauncey StarrNuclear PioneersChristopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of BanksideNuclear PioneersCrawford GreenewaltNuclear PioneersDavid LilienthalNuclear PioneersEdward TellerNuclear PioneersEmilio SegreNuclear PioneersEnrico FermiNuclear PioneersErnest LawrenceNuclear PioneersEugene WignerNuclear PioneersFrederic Joliot-CurieNuclear PioneersFritz StrassmannNuclear PioneersGeorge Paget ThomsonNuclear PioneersGeorgy FlyorovNuclear PioneersGlenn SeaborgNuclear PioneersHenri BecquerelNuclear PioneersHerbert L. AndersonNuclear PioneersHyman G. RickoverNuclear PioneersIgor KurchatovNuclear PioneersIgor TammNuclear PioneersIrene Joliot-CurieNuclear PioneersIsaiah P. TaylorNuclear PioneersJ. Robert OppenheimerNuclear PioneersJames ChadwickNuclear PioneersJohn CockcroftNuclear PioneersLeo SzilardNuclear PioneersLeona WoodsNuclear PioneersLev ArtsimovichNuclear PioneersLewis StraussNuclear PioneersLise MeitnerNuclear PioneersLyman SpitzerNuclear PioneersMarcel BoiteuxNuclear PioneersMarie CurieNuclear PioneersMoses BlackmanNuclear PioneersNiels BohrNuclear PioneersNikolai DollezhalNuclear PioneersNikolaus RiehlNuclear PioneersNorman RasmussenNuclear PioneersOtto HahnNuclear PioneersPhilip AbelsonNuclear PioneersPhilo FarnsworthNuclear PioneersPierre CurieNuclear PioneersRobin JeffreyNuclear PioneersWalker CislerNuclear PioneersWalter ZinnNuclear PioneersWerner HeisenbergNuclear PioneersWilliam L. BordenNuclear PioneersWilliam Penney, Baron PenneyNuclear PioneersYuli KharitonNuclear PioneersSources1. Nuclear reactor - Wikipediatier 2WikipediaLead section, Chicago Pile-1 1942Quote, Lead section, Chicago Pile-1 1942In 1942, the first artificial critical nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, was built by the Metallurgical Laboratory.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.