Hilberry, Norman

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Norman Hilberry, director of Argonne National Laboratory (seated) and Dean E. Dalquest (standing), superintendent of the laboratory's Graphic Arts division. They are examining an historic galvanometer chart which has been preserved and mounted for display. The chart shows the startup of the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction which was achieved at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field facility on December 2, 1942.
Hilberry, Norman, 1899-1986 | Dalquest, Dean E. | Physicists | Measuring instruments | Nuclear reactions--History | Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History
Argonne National Laboratory
1958
Photographic prints; 26.8 x 20.6 cm
Lemont, Illinois
Archival Photographic Files
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
apf1-02809

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