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Atomic Bomb

Physicist Louis Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation

Tuesday May 21, 1946
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, U.S.

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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