Ted Petry
At his suburban Orland Park home, Ted Petry looks through a binder of news clippings, awards and ephemera from the CP-1 project. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
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A Witness to Atomic History

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CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—November 13, 2017

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By: Michael Drapa

Ted Petry
At his suburban Orland Park home, Ted Petry looks through a binder of news clippings, awards and ephemera from the CP-1 project. (Photo by Jean Lachat)

Hidden on a shelf in the government building on the South Side of Chicago is a fading reminder of a historic experiment 75 years ago that ushered in the Atomic Age.

The relic is an empty, jade-green bottle of Bertolli Chianti, which physicist…

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