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Amos Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two successive football fields for the University of Chicago. Beyond sports, the first Stagg Field (1893–1957), named for famed coach, Alonzo Stagg, is remembered for its role in a landmark scientific achievement of Enrico Fermi and the Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
Nov 25, 2015 · Stagg Field sits on the northwest corner of the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus. These days, it’s home to a baseball field, tennis courts, a track and a football...
Stagg Field, University of Chicago, November 1927. Named after legendary Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the now-demolished stadium eventually became as well-known for the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reaction, which took place under its stands, as for the heroics of the teams that played there.
- Stagg Field, 1927
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Learn how the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, was built and tested in a squash court under Stagg Field at UChicago in 1942. Discover the legacy of this historic event and the role of UChicago in the Manhattan Project.
Enrico Fermi led the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, a remarkable achievement. The reactor's construction took place under Stagg Field's west viewing stands by the talented team from the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory.
Jun 6, 2018 · The site of the world-changing physics experiment — The University of Chicago’s Stagg Field in 1942. CP-1 , as the reactor was called, was not a particularly impressive engineering feat at first glance.
Dec 1, 2017 · Scientists achieved the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction 75 years ago on Dec. 2, 1942, on an underground squash court beneath the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field.
