Trivia Question #4
Q. Did Enrico Fermi:
a) design the Ferrari?
b) construct the first nuclear reactor?
c) compose the hit song Chain Reaction?

Answer below










A. b) He constructed the first nuclear reactor. The Italian born US physicist built the first nuclear reactor in 1942 at the University of Chicago and took part in the Manhattan Project. Fermium (Fm), a radioactive element found in the debris of the first nuclear explosion, was named after him. When Fermi produced the first self sustaining chain reaction the achievement was announced cryptically to scientists working on the bomb with the coded message "The Italian navigator has reached the New World".

(With permission from "Not Tonight Josephine" board game)