Nuclear Energy

by Henry Moore dedicated at the University of Chicago Decenber 2, 1967

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1967. 5 photographic cards, 7 x 6 in., laid into printed folder, folder soiled, prints fine. Likely presented as part of the dedication ceremony of Moore's piece. On December 2, 1942, a team of scientists led by Italian émigré Enrico Fermi set the world’s first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in motion at Chicago Pile 1, the world’s first artificial nuclear reactor built under the

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