Enrico Fermi & the Manhattan Project

Enrico Fermi

• The Department of Energy's Fermi centennial page
• Argonne National Laboratory Frontiers: The Last Universal Scientist
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory       
  • Biography
  • Commemorative Stamp
    The USPS issued the stamp at the University of Chicago on September 29, 2001.
• Nobel Foundation biography
• PBS series, "A Science Odyssey"
• Time 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century

The Manhattan Project

• "The First Pile" by Allardice & Trapnell (also contains "Fermi's Own Story")
• The First Reactor from DOE
  • In PDF format (free download: Adobe Acrobat Reader)
  • Request a print copy from DOE
• DOE nuclear energy information center; ask your nuclear energy-related questions    
• UChicago Library's Manhattan Project and Atomic Scientists Collections
• Argonne National Laboratory Frontiers                   
  
  • Drawing of Chicago Pile 1 under the grandstand at the old Stagg Field
  • Promethean Boldness
  • 1946 reunion photo     
  • Brief History of Materials R&D at ANL from the Met Lab to circa 1995
• From Los Alamos 50 Years Ago
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists           

Photo of the old Stagg Field grandstand

courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Office of Public Affairs

Original source for this page:  http://physics.uchicago.edu/fermi.html