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Enrico Fermi
en-REE-koh FAIR-mee
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The Italian-American physicist who led the team that achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1, on 2 December 1942 beneath the stands of a university football field. Nobel laureate of 1938 for work on neutron-induced radioactivity, he stands at the origin of nuclear power as directly as anyone can.
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Defining ContributionThe first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1, 1942 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Uranium, History, Fission researchQuote, Associated With: Uranium, History, Fission research
On 2 December 1942, as part of the Manhattan Project, another team led by Enrico Fermi was able to initiate the first artificial self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1.
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