Location of CP-1
Abstract/Description: | Looking southeast from 56th and Ellis Avenues. View of west end of Stagg Field, University of Chicago. This was the location of CP-1, the world's first atomic pile. Beneath these stands on December 2, 1942, man initiated a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and controlled it. |
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Subject(s): | College campuses Nuclear reactors |
Credit Line: | Argonne National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives |
Catalog ID: | University of Chicago H4 |
Title: | Location of CP-1 . | |
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Type of Resource: | still image | |
Extent: | 1 photographic print (black and white; 11 x 8.5 inches) | |
Abstract/Description: | Looking southeast from 56th and Ellis Avenues. View of west end of Stagg Field, University of Chicago. This was the location of CP-1, the world's first atomic pile. Beneath these stands on December 2, 1942, man initiated a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and controlled it. | |
Identifier(s): | University of Chicago H4 (Catalog ID) | |
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Credit Line: Argonne National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives |
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Subject(s): |
College campuses Nuclear reactors |
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Held by: | Niels Bohr Library & Archives | |
Related Title: | Fermi Film Collection. | |
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