1942: UChicago’s race to the first nuclear reaction

Scholars discuss the scientists at the University of Chicago who, on Dec. 2, 1942, achieved the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction-as well as the implications of the historic experiment.
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[@tedpetry2028]

My dad was a part of this... was there when they started the first self sustaining nuclear reaction. Also My dad was the last living person who was present.

[@bobelliott2748]

Newton said"on the shoulders of giants" not Einstein

[@nailuraquellugolandaez1067]

Einstein and Enrico Fermi were colleagues, but Einstein don't work in Manhattan Project

[@29rbs]

Not directly, no, because he was denied clearance, but he had a large part in initiating it by writing to FDR