Enrico Fermi

Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger, Nobel-winning physicist and UChicago alum, 1921-2020

Chain reaction pile

Race to the first nuclear chain reaction

UChicago to commemorate 75th anniversary of first chain reaction

Battery

Author provides inside look at Argonne National Laboratory’s efforts to build a ‘super battery’

Manhattan Project Plutonium, Lost to Obscurity, Recovered by Scientists


Scientific American

Enrico Fermi colleagues announce time capsule contents from Research Institutes building

Scientists explore the future of high-energy physics


Steve Koppes

CP 1 Painting

The first nuclear reactor, explained