chain reaction

The Chain Reaction



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The Chain Reaction:
December 2, 1942 and After


An Exhibition in the Department of Special Collections,
University of Chicago Library
October 1, 1992 - December 4, 1992


Topical divisions of the exhibition:

1. The Chain Reaction

2. The Atomic Scientists of Chicago

3. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

4. The Passage of the McMahon Act
This exhibition was organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, an achievement of Enrico Fermi and his colleagues at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
Based on the papers of individual scientists and records of scientists' associations, the text of the exhibition begins with an account of the construction and operation of the first nuclear pile beneath the West Stands of Stagg Field on the campus of the University of Chicago. The exhibition examines the concerns of atomic scientists from Chicago and elsewhere over the dangers of nuclear power, and it then traces the scientists' post-World War II campaigns of public education and legislation to assure civilian control of atomic energy.

For further information on this exhibition and related manuscript and archival collections, please contact:



Special Collections Research Center
University of Chicago Library
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois 60637

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