Nuclear Energy
| Title | Nuclear Energy |
| View | Creation 7 |
| Series | II: Buildings and Grounds |
| Description | Formal dedication of Nuclear Energy, a major work by Henry Moore, one of Britain's leading sculptors, will take place on Saturday, December 2, 1967. The 12-foot bronze symbolic sculpture, created in England and cast in Germany, will be placed on the University of Chicago campus at the site of the now-demolished West Stands of Stagg Athletic Field. It was there on December 2, 1942 that the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction took place, an event directed by the late Nobel Prize winning physicist Enrico Fermi. |
| Subject Terms | Sculpture (Visual works) | Bronzes (Visual works) | Polishing | Bronzeworkers | Public sculpture |
| Photograph Date | 1967 |
| Physical Format | Photographic prints; 24.0 x 19.2 cm |
| Sculptor | Moore, Henry, 1898-1986 |
| Location | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
| Campus Grid | CG01 |
| Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
| Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Image Identifier | apf2-05343 |
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