The story is still rather marvelous to relate. The scientist in charge of the project was the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who fled to the United States from the Fascists of Mussolini.
這段歷史說來還頗富傳奇，原來主持這次實驗的，是逃避墨索里尼政權而流亡美國的義大利學者費爾明。