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    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, suffered acute radiation syndrome (ARS) and died soon...
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    "demon core", was later involved in the death of another physicist, Louis Slotin. Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr., of Armenian descent, was born in Waterbury...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • A sketch of Louis Slotin's criticality accident used to determine exposure of those in the room at the time....
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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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    kept alive 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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    deal of time and claimed at least two lives; see Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin. The published Smyth Report of 1945 on the Manhattan Project was translated...
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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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    International Space Station Clifford Shull, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Louis Slotin (December 1, 1910 – May 30, 1946), Canadian physicist and chemist Gore...
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