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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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