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Chicago Pile-1 Criticality

Enrico Fermi and the Manhattan Project team achieve the first controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), a pivotal moment in the development of atomic energy and weaponry.

Year 1942
Date 12/2
Location University Of Chicago, Illinois, United States
Layer 2
Visibility PUBLIC

Key Figures

Enrico Fermi Leona Woods Herbert Anderson Safety Officer

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1946 · same era
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1947 · same era
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Publication of the Point-Contact Transistor Paper
1948 · same era
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · same era
E
ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · same era
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Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · precedes
E
ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · precedes
I
Invention of the Transistor
1947 · precedes
H
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1945 · precedes
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Delivery of the first UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau
1951 · precedes
I
Invention of the Point-Contact Transistor
1947 · precedes
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · precedes