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Louis Alexander Slotin (/ ˈ s l oʊ t ɪ n / SLOHT-in; [1] 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's ...
Louis Alexander Slotin (/ ˈ s l oʊ t ɪ n / SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's ...
Alvin Cushman Graves was born on November 4, 1909, in Washington, D.C., the youngest of six children.He was the son of Herbert C. Graves, an engineer with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace after World War I.
Louis Slotin asked Elizabeth Graves to calculate whether or not a human could survive that dosage of radiation, referring to her husband, without telling her about the accident. [7] Elizabeth was a self-proclaimed stoic, but "she froze when she learned who the subject of her calculation was". [ 7 ]
Louis Slotin: 30 May 1946: The 35-year-old Canadian physicist and Manhattan Project scientist died as the result of an accident while performing an experiment called "tickling the dragon's tail" with a plutonium core which came to be known as the "demon core". His screwdriver slipped, exposing him to a fatal dose of radiation.
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This incident in which "Cochran" receives a fatal dose of radiation while assembling the Hiroshima bomb is a highly fictionalized reference to the deaths of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, members of the Manhattan Project who died after contact with radioactive material on 21 August 1945 and 21 May 1946. [22]