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Enrico Fermi and Herbert Anderson, November or December 1945.


Reference: Bretscher Papers, BRER A. 62. a/0511

Enrico Fermi and Herbert Anderson outside Emilio Segrè's laboratory, November or December 1945. Emilio Segrè's group studied spontaneous fission in plutonium and uranium and, after they moved to Los Alamos from Berkeley in June 1945, were housed in an old cabin in Pajarito Canyon, 14 miles from the main site.