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Site of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear chain reaction, December 2, 1942.
Physicists Enrico Fermi and his colleagues established the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction in makeshift laboratories constructed under the grandstands of Stagg Field Stadium on December 2, 1942. The success of this experiment ushered in the atomic era, opening tremendous potential to modern science.
"Nuclear energy" by Henry Moore, dedicated December 2, 1967.