On December 2, 1942, 49 scientists gathered beneath the west stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist who had fled fascism four years earlier, directed his team to slowly withdraw the cadmium-coated control rods from what he called “a crude pile of b lack bricks and wooden timbers.” At […] The post 83 Years: From Fermi’s Pile to Quantum Campus appeared first on Chicago Reader. ...read more read less