Urologist Charles Huggins at the University of Chicago demonstrated that advanced prostate cancer could be controlled through hormonal manipulation, work that founded the field of hormonal chemotherapy and earned him the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1942, Enrico Fermi led the team that achieved the first controlled nuclear fission chain reaction, Chicago Pile-1, built under the stands of a football stadium at the University of Chicago.
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Fermi was nicknamed the 'pope of physics,' a title the hosts use to explain confidence that the reactor would not go out of control.
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59:22was urologist Charles Huggin at the University of Chicago. He demonstrated that advanced prostate cancer could be controlled through hormonal manipulation. He won the 1966 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. And he really established with this discovery the field of modern hormonal chemotherapy >> which continues to be a battle we fight to this day. 1942 first controlled nuclear fision chain reaction. >> Another one that we covered in the Oppenheimer episode. Enrio Fermy creates the first controlled nuclear fision chain reaction the Chicago pile one under the football stadium at the
1:00:05University of Chicago. Um, if things had gone wrong, Chicago would have blown up, but they didn't because the pope of physics was in charge. >> Is that where they buried Jimmy Hoff or is that the bear stadium?