Physicist Harry Daghlian received a lethal dose of radiation
Tuesday Aug 21, 1945 Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.
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.
