Key
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content: Brass key for the lock on control rod slot 21 of Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile nuclear reactor, 1942. Albert Wattenberg (1917–2007), the donor, was an experimental physicist who worked with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago during World War II. He was a member of the team that built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, and was present on December 2, 1942, when it achieved criticality.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Albert Wattenberg
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0261.01
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content: 1993.0261.01
label: accession number
content: 1993.0261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Key