On May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin tickled the dragon’s tail once too often. Slotin, the scientist who assembled the first atom bomb before it was detonated at Alamogordo, N.M., and who was dubbed by his ...

The facts: At 3:20 p.m. on May 21, 1946, in a government atomic-weapons lab in Los Alamos, N.M., the young Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was conducting a demonstration with plutonium for some ...

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The first peacetime victim of nuclear fission died last week. He was Dr. Louis Slotin of Winnipeg, Canada and the atom bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the cause of his death—exposure to ...

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Dr. Louis Slotin, Jewish scientist who died last week from the effects of radiation burns suffered as the result of an accident at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he was engaged in atomic research, was ...

Presented by The Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 W. 52 St., NYC, April 9-29. "Neutrons are like clumsy ghosts," muses physicist and ...

Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were two of many people who worked on the Manhattan Project. They might not be household names, but we believe they are the poster children for safety procedures. And ...

What happened in Los Alamos during World War Two is under a lot of scrutiny these days. There was the TV show, then there was the national park, and now President Obama is going to Hiroshima to ...

Carolyn Krause concludes her series on plutonium and Oak Ridge with this installment that focuses on Louis Slotin. She also mentions the recent history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s latest ...