Photograph
White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy addresses a group of scientists involved in the original Enrico Fermi experiment, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project in 1942, during a visit marking the 20th anniversary of the experiment. Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, stands at left; Ambassador of Italy, Sergio Fenoaltea, stands at right. On table at left is a plexiglass model of Chicago Pile-1, the nuclear reactor used in the experiment. West Wing Colonnade, White House, Washington, D.C.