Enrico Fermi and the Chicago Pile-1 team 1946

    Caption: Enrico Fermi (1901--1954) with the team that built the first nuclear reactor: Chicago Pile-1 (operational: 1942--1943).

    Features:

    1. The image is from the 4th anniversary, 1946 Dec02, of first operation of Chicago Pile-1.

    2. Chicago Pile-1 was built under the bleachers of the University of Chicago's football stadium Stagg Field (1893--1957) in 1942 with the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction happening on 1942 Dec02.

    3. In the image:
      1. Back row, from left: Norman Hilberry (1899--1986), Samuel King Allison (1900--1965), Thomas Brill, Robert Nobles, Warren Nyer, Marvin Wilkening.
      2. Middle row, from left: Harold Agnew (1921--2013), William Sturm, Harold Lichtenberger (1920--1993), Leona Woods (1919--1986), Leo Szilard (1898--1964).
      3. Front row, from left: Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Walter Zinn (1906--2000), Albert Wattenberg (1917--2007), Herbert L. Anderson (1914--1988).

    4. Fermi counts a little bit as an astronomer because he asked the Fermi question.
    Credit/Permission: Anonymous photographer for US Government, 1946 (uploaded to Wikipedia by User:Ary29, 2005) / Public domain.
    Image link: Wikipedia: File:ChicagoPileTeam.png.
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    File: Astronomer file: enrico_fermi.html.