核能已是当前世界上日益受到重视的能源,可是,在1938年之前,却几乎没有人认识到利用核能的可能性。1933年秋,英国杰出的物理学家卢瑟福(Ernest Rutherford,1871—1937)在英国皇家学会年会上的讲演中曾经说过:“凡是谈论大规模地获得原子能的人都属于‘胡说八道’。”可惜卢瑟福爵士在1937年10月19日病故,享年66 Nuclear energy has become an increasingly important energy source in the world at present. However, before 1938, few people realized the possibility of using nuclear energy. In the autumn of 1933, Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), an eminent physicist in the United Kingdom, once said in his lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Society: “Anyone who talks about the large-scale acquisition of atomic energy belongs to the nonsense, ”Unfortunately, Sir Rutherford died on October 19, 1937, at 66