Chronology of World War II

Wednesday, December 2

The First Self-sustaining Fission Reaction


The First Self-sustaining Fission Reaction
Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist, directed and controlled the first self-sustaining fission reaction in his laboratory beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, making the atomic bomb possible and ushering in the nuclear age.