George Weil

George Leon Weil
Born	(1907-09-18)September 18, 1907 New York City
Died	July 1, 1995(1995-07-01) (aged 87) Washington, DC
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard College Columbia University
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Columbia University Metallurgical Laboratory Los Alamos Laboratory General Electric Atomic Energy Commission
Thesis	Beta-Ray Spectra of Arsenic, Rubidium and Krypton  (1942)

George Leon Weil (September 18, 1907 – July 1, 1995) was an American physicist. On December 2, 1942, he removed the control rod from the Chicago Pile-1 nuclear reactor, initiating the first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.