Manhattan Project

UChicago to host Nobel laureates, other experts for event on preventing nuclear war

July 14-16 gathering to create recommendations for policymakers and leaders to reduce the threat of nuclear war

A witness to atomic history

Ted Petry recounts world’s first nuclear reaction at UChicago, 75 years later

Manhattan Project Plutonium, Lost to Obscurity, Recovered by Scientists

Article cites work of Enrico Fermi, Chicago scientists on first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction


Scientific American

Marvin Goldberger dies at 92; physicist served as Caltech president

Alumnus and former faculty member Marvin Goldberger remembered for work on Manhattan Project at UChicago


How the first chain reaction changed science

Legacy of 1942 breakthrough on campus includes advances in many fields

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