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1942
The first nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1, a massive "pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel went critical on 2 December 1942, at the University of Chicago
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14 January 1942 discovery of 1849 Kresak
23 March 1942 discovery of 1850 Kohoutek
4 December 1942 discovery of 1883 Rimito
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26 January 1942 Death of Felix Hausdorff
27 February 1942 Birth of Robert H. Grubbs
10 March 1942 Death of William Henry Bragg
14 April 1942 Death of Leonid Alexyevich Kulik in Spas-Demensk near Smolensk, Russia
8 June 1942, Death of Arthur Bambridge Wyse, Atlantic Ocean / New Jersey coast
11 June 1942 Death of Hermann Albert Kobold in Kiel?, Germany
5 October 1942 Death of Dorothea Roberts Klumpke in San Francisco, California, USA
23 June 1942 Birth of Martin John Rees
1942 Birth of Stanley Ben Prusiner
1942 Birth of Sir John Edward Sulston
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