1. Black holes were first proposed by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a UChicago professor who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1983.
2. The hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and is named after the astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose work at the UChicago helped establish the idea of an expanding universe along with other basics of modern cosmology.
3. The Urban Education Insititute is an affiliated graduate program at UChicago that educates students in the fundamentals of effective urban education.
4. The Fujita Scale was developed by UChicago professor and meteorologist Ted Fujita as a metric to measure and classify the intensity of tornadoes.
5. Professor Paul Sereno is responsible for the discovery of many new dinosaurs on several continents as well as the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton of Sarcosuchus imperator or "Supercroc".
6. The squid giant axon, discovered by scientists at the UChicago run Marin Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Wood's Hole, MA, has had lasting effects on neuroscience as it is one of the few axons large enough to be observed functioning.
7. The institute for Molecular Engineering (IME), founded in 2011, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the emerging science of engineering on the molecular level.
8. The world's first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was created by Enrico Fermi in 1942 underneath the UChicago football stadium.
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