List Of Those Present at
CHICAGO PILE EXPERIMENT, DECEMBER 2, 1942
- Harold M. Agnew -- Retired, living in California.
- Samuel K. Allison -- Died of heart attack in 1965.
- Herbert L. Anderson -- Died July 16, 1988, of berylliosis.
- Wayne Arnold -- Deceased.
- Hugh M. Barton -- Living in Austin, Texas.
- Thomas Brill -- Died Sept. 28, 1998, in Aurora, Colo., of multiple myelomas.
- Robert F. Christy -- On faculty at the California Institute of Technology.
- Arthur H. Compton -- Died of heart attack in 1962.
- Enrico Fermi -- Died Nov. 28, 1954, of stomach cancer; Argonne's founding director, when it was still the University of Chicago's "Argonne Lab."
- Richard J. Fox -- Died April 9, 1996, of a stroke.
- Stewart Fox -- Living in the Bahamas.
- Carl. C. Gamertsfelder -- Died of a heart attack in 1996.
- Alvin C. Graves -- Died July 29, 1965, of a heart attack.
- Crawford Greenwalt -- Died of heart attack in 1993.
- David L. Hill -- Living in Connecticut.
- Norman Hilberry -- Died March 28, 1986, of complications from influenza.
- William H. Hinch -- Living in Colorado.
- Robert E. Johnson -- Living in Illinois.
- W.R. Kanne -- Died Oct. 24, 1985, of intestinal cancer.
- August C. Knuth -- Living in Illinois.
- Phillip Grant Koontz -- Died from a heart attack in 1991 at age 87 in Boulder, Colo.
- Herbert E. Kubitschek -- Deceased.
- Harold V. Lichtenberger -- Died Dec. 7, 1993, of stomach cancer.
- George M. Maronde -- Died April 18, 1966, of a heart attack.
- Anthony J. Matz -- No information.
- George Miller -- Living in California.
- George D. Monk -- No information.
- Henry P. Newson -- Died in 1978.
- Robert G. Nobles -- Retired from Argonne National Laboratory. Living in Idaho.
- Warren E. Nyer -- Living in Idaho. Spoke to the World Nuclear University Summer Institute in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on July 22, 2005, about his experience at CP-1.
- Wilcox P. Overbeck -- Died in 1981 of arteriosclerosis after defeating cancer 10 years earlier.
- Howard J. Parsons -- Alive and apparently living in California, where he made a short presentation about CP-1, June 2, 2000, at Tuffree Middle School, Placentia.
- Gerard S. Pawlicki -- Living in Illinois.
- Theodore Petry -- Living in Illinois, a retired school teacher with four children and nine grandchildren.
- David P. Rudolph -- Living in West Virginia.
- Leon Sayvetz -- Living in Puget Sound, Wash., and New York.
- Leo Seren -- Died Jan. 3, 2002, of heart problems in Evanston, Illinois.
- Louis Slotin -- Died in radiation accident at Los Alamos, May 30, 1946.
- Frank H. Spedding -- Died of heart attack in 1984.
- William J. Sturm -- Died July 25, 1999, of Hepatitus C.
- Leo Szilard -- Developed bladder cancer, but died May 30, 1964, of heart attack.
- Al Wattenberg -- Living in Illinois.
- Richard J. Watts -- Living in New Mexico.
- George L. Weil -- Died July 1, 1995, at age 87 in Washington, D.C., from stroke and heart problems.
- Eugene P. Wigner -- Died Jan. 1, 1995, of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Marvin H. Wilkening -- Living in New Mexico.
- Volney C. (Bill) Wilson -- Retired from General Electric Research Laboratory. Died of natural causes April 1, 2006, at age 96 in Wisconsin.
- E.O. Wollan -- Died in 1984 of a stroke.
- Leona Woods (Marshall Libby) -- Died of cancer in 1986.
- Walter H. Zinn – Argonne National Laboratory’s first director died at age 93 on Feb. 14, 2000, of a stroke.
last updated June 19, 2006 by the Office of Public Affairs, Argonne National Laboratory
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