Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was built under the direction
Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was built under the direction of physicist Enrico Fermi, in collaboration with Leo Szilard. Drawing of scientists using the world's first nuclear reactor, which was constructed under the football grandstands at the University of Chicago. By Melvin A. Miller of the Argonne National Laboratory. (BSLOC_2015_2_22)
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