Nuclear Energy at the University of Chicago

The plaque next to the sculpture reads

Site of the First Self-sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction
December 2, 1942

Physicist enrico Fermi and his colleagues established the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction in makeshift laboratories constructed under the grandstands of Stagg Field Stadium on December 2, 1942. The success of this experiment ushered in the atomic age, openning tremendous potential to modern science.

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