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Metallurgical Laboratory
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Metallurgical Laboratory
The
Metallurgical Laboratory
or "Met Lab" was the code name for part of the
World War II
–era
Manhattan Project
– the
Allied
effort to develop the
atomic bomb
. It was part of the Metallurgical Project headed by
Arthur H. Compton
, a
Nobel Prize
laureate and Professor of Physics at the
University of Chicago
. The Metallurgical Laboratory produced the first controlled
nuclear chain reaction
in
Chicago Pile-1
, built at the University's old
football
stadium,
Stagg Field
. Its chemical section was the first to chemically isolate the first weighable amount of
plutonium
.
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