chicagohistorymuseum:

A portrait of physicist and Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago, c. 1940.
Photograph by
Stephen

Deutch

As part of the
Manhattan Project

during World War II,
Fermi

led the team that built

the first atomic reactor,

Chicago Pile-1, and
successfully

produced the first artificial
self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction on December 2, 1942, in an
abandoned squash court under the grandstands of the since-demolished Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory

is named for him.

To purchase a copy
E-mail rightsrepro@chicagohistory.org and give them this number:
ICHi-59859

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