William R. Kanne worked on Chicago Pile One along with Enrico Fermi and Leó Szilárd. He invented the Kanne Chamber (patent no. 2,599,922), a way of monitoring gas for radioactivity. The patent was filed on 12 October 1944.
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“You’ve no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself—and how little I deserve it.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)