Mark HumeDaily Southtown

Jul 27, 2023 | chicagotribune.com | Mark Hume |Mark HumeDaily Southtown

Chicago’s cameo appearance in the new hit film “Oppenheimer” reminds us it was in this great city the world first entered the Atomic Age. The physicist Enrico Fermi, who came to the United States to flee fascism in Italy, led a team that created the first self-sustaining nuclear fission reaction under the University of Chicago football stadium in 1942.