The other record of the first nuclear reactor start-up.

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The other record of the first nuclear reactor start-up.

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Description of the beginnings of the University of Chicago's nuclear reactor, written by E. O. Wollan, in which he discusses his involvement in creating a device that measured the gamma radiation at the start-up of the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942. The radiation meter was based on a quartz fiber electrometer technique that gave an image of the quartz fiber on a moving photographic film. A sample photograph is included.

5 pages.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8311946

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Wollan, Ernest Omar

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University of Chicago. Metallurgical Laboratory

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