Who created the first nuclear reactor under Arthur's leadership?
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Enrico Fermi, an Italian-American physicist, led a team of scientists in the Manhattan Project, which produced the world's first nuclear reactor. The reactor, known as Chicago Pile-1, was built in 1942 under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. It demonstrated the feasibility of a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction and paved the way for the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
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