Word: slotin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.E.C.'s report contains a grisly hint about the early stages of bomb taming: "Original design, testing and construction were undertaken by a group working with the late Dr. Louis Slotin, victim of a radiation accident at the Los Alamos Laboratory...
...Manhattan District and its successor, the Atomic Energy Commission, which have kept a close watch on employees, are morally certain that there have been only two deaths from radioactivity in the history of the project: those of Physicists Louis A. Slotin and Harry K. Daghlian, who died from accidental exposure to a powerful beam of neutrons and gamma rays last year (TIME, June...
...FULL STORY OF THE DEATH OF DR. LOUIS SLOTIN AS TOLD BY A VISITING SCIENTIST ADDS AN IRONIC TWIST TO TIME'S STORY [TIME, JUNE 10]. SLOTIN, WHOSE FIELD WAS ORIGINALLY BIOLOGY, BECAME SO EXPERT AT HANDLING SUBCRITICAL MASSES FOR BOMB ASSEMBLY THAT HE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF TESTING THE MATERIALS FOR OPERATION CROSSROADS. HE WAS WORKING ON HIS LAST ASSEMBLY ON HIS LAST DAY IN THE LAB BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE PACIFIC...
...ONLY 18^ INCHES FROM THE SUBCRITICAL MASSES WITHOUT ANY PROTECTIVE GUARDS. ADMITTEDLY GOING TOO FAST FOR SAFETY, HE LET HIS SCREWDRIVER SLIP. IN LESS THAN A FLASH HE RECEIVED A FATAL DOSE OF RADIATION. FULLY AWARE THAT DEATH WAS CERTAIN, AND NOT WANTING ANY KNOWLEDGE TO DIE WITH HIM, SLOTIN RETURNED THE NEXT DAY TO THE LABORATORY AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING TO THE STAFF WHICH HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTING IN ASSEMBLY. NOT UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY DID HE GO TO THE HOSPITAL TO AWAIT...
...Then Dr. Slotin was taken to the hospital, where, nine days later, he died of the peculiar and imperfectly understood burns produced by radiation. Seven coworkers, less seriously injured, hoped to recover...