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Ted Petry, last surviving witness to first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, dies at 94 Ted Petry, last surviving witness to first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, dies at 94

Ted Petry, last surviving witness to first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, dies at 94

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A witness to atomic history Ted Petry

A witness to atomic history

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