I'm at a meeting at the CREF - Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi - in Rome. The building is inside a government compound shared with the Italian Interior Ministry, so is slightly bureaucratic to get into, but the centre is here as it is the building where Enrico Fermi worked. There is a museum here which I hope to go to later, but as proof that this place has some nuclear physics history, here's a picture of a fountain with a plaque in front, which reads "Using the water of the goldfish fountain of his institute, Enrico Fermi established for the first time in the afternoon of 22 October 1934 the crucial role of hydrogenous substances on neutron-induced radioactivity thus opening the way to the use of slow neutrons in nuclear fission chain reaction"
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