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"Nuclear Energy", a 12-foot tall bronze sculpture by the British abstract artist Henry Moore (1898-1986), was unveiled at 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967, precisely 25 years after scientists at the University of Chicago achieved the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. The sculpture stands on the site of the University's old Stagg Field West Stands, where the experiment took place in a former squash court. The team of scientists was led by Enrico Fermi. The abstract sculpture is suggestive of the shape of a human skull or an atomic mushroom cloud. Henry Moore himself hoped those viewing it would "go around it, looking out through the open spaces, and that they may have a feeling of being in a cathedral." Site of
sculpture on campus map http://maps.uchicago.edu/north/moore.html Interactive
picture http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp905/html/VictorZaveduk.html |
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Fermium -- Element
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Anniversaries, Symposia, and More |
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4th
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10th
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Dedication
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To
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Enrico
Fermi Award
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To Fermi - with
Love. Argonne,
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Fermi
Remembered: A Symposium http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/fermi/home.html |
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| Enrico
Fermi: The Life of a Scientist http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/crerar/exhibits/enricofermi.html |
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year 25 : the story of CP-1 : a silver anniversary documentary on the first
controlled nuclear chain reaction. Argonne, Ill. : Argonne National
Laboratory, [1967?] (1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in.) |
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The Nuclear Chain
Reaction: Forty Years Later
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Chain Reaction: December 2, 1942 and After An Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections,University of Chicago Library October 1, 1992 - December 4, 1992 http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/chain.html |
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| Enrico
Fermi and his legacy in nuclear physics: a website contest for U.S. and
Italian students (commemorating the 100th anniversary of Fermi's birth) http://www-news.uchicago.edu/fermi/ |
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Mertens, Richard,
"Beyond the Bomb," University of Chicago Magazine, Volume
94, Number 2 (covers symposium held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
of Fermi's birth)
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