Quotes About Arthur Compton

The air-cooled, pilot-scale reactor at Oak Ridge had gone critical at five o'clock in the morning on November 4, 1943; the loading crews, realizing during the night that they were nearing criticality sooner than expected, had enjoyed rousting Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi out of bed at the Oak Ridge guest house to witness the event.

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.