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Atomic Bomb - Physicist Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation

Time: Tuesday Aug 21, 1945

Place: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.

Details: 21 August 1945: While conducting impromptu experiments on a third core (an alloy of plutonium and gallium) which had been prepared for atomic warfare at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation. He died on 15 September 1945.

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