Title | Atomic Energy |
View | Tablet, College Tours 1 |
Series | III: Events |
Description | Members of a tour group view a tablet on the wall of the University of Chicago's athletic venue Stagg Field. It commemorates the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction, an event which took place under the field's west stands, December 2, 1942. |
Subject Terms | College students | Walking tours | Tablets (Information artifacts) | Nuclear fission--History |
Photographer | Town & Country Photographers |
Photograph Date | 1949 |
Physical Format | Photographic prints; 19.3 x 24.5 cm |
Location | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
Collection | Archival Photographic Files |
Repository | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
Image Identifier | apf3-00228 |
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