#nuclear fission

Otto Hahn won the 1944 Nobel prize of chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission, which was a joint project with Lise Meitner. Meitner was nominated 48 times, and never won a Nobel.

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Today in Science History:

The first nuclear reactor, dubbed Chicago Pile-1, was constructed on a squash court underneath the University of Chicago by a team led by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. It was made of of a “pile” of uranium, graphite (used as a moderator) and cadmium control rods, which act as neutron absorbers to “control” or “slow down” the reaction. It first achieved a self sustaining nuclear reaction on December 2nd, 1942 at 3:25 pm.

Learn more (article from 2017):

Remembering the Chicago Pile, the World’s First Nuclear Reactor