He came to the University of Chicago in 1942, after three years at Columbia University, to teach and carry out experiments, little thinking that he would quickly succeed and thereby make the University of Chicago a focus of world attention.
一九四二年，他從待了三年的哥倫比亞大學轉住芝大擔任教職及主持實驗，沒想到迅即成功，連帶使芝大也成了全世界矚目的焦點。