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Inventor

Fermi Enrico

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1955

Associated with

Years active

1955

Total patents

1

Most recent

1955

Frequent collaborator

Szilard Leo

Domains

energymechanical

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1950s
1

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1 patents, in 1955

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US 2708656·1955·Individual

How the First Nuclear Reactor Works

The foundational 1955 patent by Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard describing the design of the first nuclear reactor capable of a self-sustaining chain reaction.

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