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| Nuclear Energy - by Henry Moore |
Nuclear Energy, site of world's first nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1)
Sculptor: Henry Moore
Dedicated: 1967
Location: The campus of the University of Chicago,
on Ellis Avenue, between the Max Palevsky West dormitory and the Regenstein Library
Commissioned by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund, to commemorates the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was erected for and dedicated at the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the splitting of the atom on the grounds by Enrico Fermi in December 2, 1942. The location commemorates the exact location where the Manhattan Project team devised the first nuclear reactor to produce the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction. It was dedicated at precisely 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967
The site was ...
Designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1965
Designated a Chicago Landmark in 1971
