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Title

Squash court under Stagg field bleachers

Description

A transformed squash court housed history's first successful nuclear pile. [Enrico] Fermi chose this room because it was the only space available with ceilings high enough to permit construction of the latticed cube-like structure of graphite bricks embedded with Uranium 235.

Subject

  • Squash court under Stagg field bleachers
  • Places
  • Events (Historical)

Credits

Archival Photographic Files, apf2-07646, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Type

Photographic

Associated Lesson

Gamma Ray History

This material is based upon work supported by NASA under Grant Nos. NNX09AD33G and NNX10AE80G issued through the SMD ROSES 2009 Program.

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