William R. Kanne
Encyclopedia
William R. Kanne worked on Chicago Pile One
along with Enrico Fermi
and Leo Szilard
. He invented the Kanne Chamber (patent no. 2,599,922), a way of monitoring gas for radioactivity. The patent was filed on 12 October 1944.
Chicago Pile-1
Chicago Pile-1 was the world's first man-made nuclear reactor. CP-1 was built on a rackets court, under the abandoned west stands of the original Alonzo Stagg Field stadium, at the University of Chicago. The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 on December 2, 1942...
along with Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
and Leo Szilard
Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
. He invented the Kanne Chamber (patent no. 2,599,922), a way of monitoring gas for radioactivity. The patent was filed on 12 October 1944.
External links
- Kanne's Patent image (Quicktime)