Atomic Bomb - Physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation

Time: Tuesday May 21, 1946

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

Details: 21 May 1946: While conducting further impromptu experiments on the third plutonium core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation. He died on 30 May 1946.

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