Pickle Barrel Reactor
name: label: maker
content: New York University
label: maker
content: College of Engineering
label: maker
content: New York University. College of Engineering
notes: label: Description
content: Small nuclear reactor developed by Lyle Benjamin Borst (1912-2002), a nuclear physicist and inventor who had worked on the Manhattan Project and later served as chairman of the Department of Physics at the New York University.
label: Description
content: Ref: “N.Y.U. Gets a Pint-Size Atom Plant / To Create The First Chain Reaction Here,” New York Times (Nov. 4, 1955), p. 31.
label: Description
content: “EUROPE WILL SEE U.S. UNIT,” New York Times (March 31, 1956), p. 29.
label: Description
content: “Lyle Borst, 89, Nuclear Physicist Who Worked on A-Bomb Project,” New York Times (Aug. 12, 2002), p. A13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.N-08581
label: catalog number
content: N-08581
label: accession number
content: 251515
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Braces