Louis Slotin: Porovnání verzí

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'''Louis Alexander Slotin''' (1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian [[physicist]] and [[chemist]] who worked on the [[Manhattan Project]]. During World War II, Slotin conducted research at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]]. He performed experiments with [[uranium]] and [[plutonium]] [[pit (nuclear weapon)|cores]] to determine their [[critical mass]] values. On 21 May 1946, Slotin was conducting a demonstration when he accidentally initiated a [[fission reaction]], which released a burst of [[hard radiation]]. He received a lethal dose of radiation and died of [[acute radiation syndrome]] nine days later. Slotin was the second person to die from a [[criticality accident]], following the death of [[Harry Daghlian]], who had been exposed to radiation by the same [[demon core|core]] that killed Slotin. Slotin was publicly hailed as a hero by the United States government for reacting quickly and preventing his accident from killing any colleagues. He was later criticized for failing to follow protocol during the experiment.