Louis Alexander Slotin (/ˈsloʊtɪn/ SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project...
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configuration. Physicists Harry Daghlian (in the first accident) and Louis Slotin (in the second accident) suffered acute radiation syndrome and died shortly...
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"demon core", was later involved in the death of another physicist, Louis Slotin. Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr., was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on...
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com. Retrieved 27 January 2015. Bernhardt, Darren (July 29, 2023). "Louis Slotin and the demon core: Winnipeg's Oppenheimer connection". CBC News. Retrieved...
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in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered. Alvin Cushman Graves was born on November 4, 1909, in...
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pasteurization Louis Le Prince (1841–disappeared 1890), French inventor, Father of Cinematography Louis Schoonhoven (born 1931), Dutch entomologist Louis Slotin (1910–1946)...
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Drood". Variety. Retrieved 2023-06-27. Whitney, A.K. (2011-11-29). "'Louis Slotin Sonata' takes an unflinching look at death by radiation poisoning". Daily...
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subcritical reactor. According to Alvin Weinberg and Eugene Wigner, Louis Slotin was the first to propose the name "dollar" for the interval of reactivity...
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atomic regulation in a more conservative direction. May 21: Physicist Louis Slotin receives a fatal dose of radiation (2100 rems) when the screwdriver he...
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dies. May 1946: Criticality accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Louis Slotin dies. 1950s 13 February 1950: a Convair B-36B crashed in northern British...
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clean room. The polonium-beryllium "Urchin" initiator was assembled, and Louis Slotin placed it inside the two hemispheres of the plutonium core. Cyril Smith...
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this document have been identified as: 1 – Daghlian, 2 – Hemmerly, 3 – Slotin, 4 – Graves, 5 – Kline, 6 – Young, 7 – Cleary, 8 – Cieleski, 9 – Schreiber...
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all over his face. This is consistent with the description given by Louis Slotin, a Manhattan Project physicist who died days after a fatal radiation...
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character is loosely based on the scientist Louis Slotin. Contrary to Merriman's death in the movie, Slotin's accident and death occurred after the dropping...
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(1944–2013), chemist and physicist David Shugar (1915–2015), physicist Louis Slotin (1910–1946), physicist and chemist Joe Schwarcz, science writer and chemist...
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a re-enactment of Harry Daghlian's 1945 experiment A re-creation of the Slotin incident. The plutonium "demon core" (the same as in the Daghlian incident)...
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Slotin knew he had absorbed a fatal dose of radiation, and Alvin Graves was standing the closest to Slotin when the incident occurred. Louis Slotin asked...
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experiments on the same core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Louis Slotin accidentally caused the core to become briefly supercritical. He received...
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Italian physicist and recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. Louis Slotin, physicist and chemist; died from radiation poisoning at Los Alamos in...
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field-test a design before using it in war (though scientists such as Louis Slotin did perform non-destructive tests with sub-critical assemblies, dangerous...
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White Sands Missile Range. May 21 – Manhattan Project physicist Dr. Louis Slotin accidentally triggers a fission reaction at the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
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fishing boat exposed to nuclear fallout from the Castle Bravo test. 1 Louis Slotin 1946, May 21 Criticality accident at Los Alamos National Laboratory in...
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construction workers. Four scientists died, including Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin in criticality accidents involving the demon core. On 10 March 1945,...
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Sv lived for 83 days after the accident. 21 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Louis Slotin in 1946 criticality accident 36 Sv: Fatal acute dose to Cecil Kelley...
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iridium-192 source, prior to it being re-located. Demon core Harry Daghlian Louis Slotin List of unsolved deaths ^ Sources disagree as to whether the stolen iridium-192...
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died 25 days later. Nine months later, another Los Alamos scientist, Louis Slotin, died from a similar accident involving a beryllium reflector and the...
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A sketch of Louis Slotin's criticality accident used to determine exposure of those in the room at the time....
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Manhattan Project several people were irradiated (two, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, were irradiated fatally) during "tickling the dragon's tail" experiments...
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director of the Manhattan Project, signed for them, and handed them over to Louis Slotin, the head of the Pit Assembly Team. The active components of the bomb...
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Pawlicki, Theodore Petry, David P. Rudolph, Leon Sayvetz, Leo Seren, Louis Slotin, Frank Spedding, William J. Sturm, Leo Szilard, Albert Wattenberg, Richard...
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