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Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist
Louis Alexander Slotin (SLOHT-in;[1] 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project.
Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's College London in 1936.
Afterwards, he joined the University of Chicago as a research associate to help design a cyclotron.
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In 1942, Slotin was invited to participate in the Manhattan Project, and subsequently performed experiments with uranium and plutoniumcores to determine their critical mass values. After World War II he continued his research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
On 21 May 1946, he accidentally triggered a fission reaction which released a burst of hard radiation. He was rushed to the hospital and died nine days later o