The Nuclear chain reaction--forty years later : proceedings of a University of Chicago symposium, commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction /

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Imprint:	[Chicago] : University of Chicago, 1984.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Nuclear energy -- Research -- United States -- History -- Congresses. Nuclear reactors -- United States -- History -- Congresses. Nuclear energy -- Research. Nuclear reactors. United States. Conference papers and proceedings. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11291714
Related Items:	Print version: Nuclear chain reaction--forty years later.

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Other authors / contributors:	Sachs, Robert Green, 1916- University of Chicago.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Chicago Library web site, viewed on July 24, 2017).
Other form:	Print version: Nuclear chain reaction--forty years later. [Chicago] : University of Chicago, 1984

Table of Contents:

History of the chain reaction / Eugene P. Wigner.
Historical background of the CP-1 experiment / Robert G. Sachs.
Appendix A. The first chain reaction / Herbert L. Anderson.
Appendix B. Beginning of 1939 Science Service News Release.
Appendix C. December 2, 1942: The event and the people / Albert Wattenberg (reprinted from The bulletin of the atomic scientists, December, 1982) ; The politics of control: the role of Chicago scientists / Alice Kimball Smith ; Memories about the McMahon Act / Edward Levi.

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