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Hace 3 días · Louis Slotin and Herbert Lehr prior to insertion of the bomb's tamper plug (visible in front of Lehr's left knee) In the final two weeks before the test, some 250 personnel from Los Alamos were at work at the Trinity site, [74] and Lieutenant Bush's command had ballooned to 125 men guarding and maintaining the base camp.
- July 16, 1945, (78 years ago)
- Trinity Site, New Mexico
Hace 1 día · On May 21, 1946, Canadian physicist Louis Slotin suffered a critical accident while conducting an experiment at Los Alamos Laboratory. Slotin was demonstrati...
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Hace 5 días · On May 21, 1946, physicist Louis Slotin and seven other personnel were in a Los Alamos laboratory conducting another experiment to verify the closeness of the core to criticality by the positioning of neutron reflectors.
14 de may. de 2024 · Although Daghlian’s colleague and mentor Louis Slotin, who died in a similar accident just nine months after Daghlian, received a hero’s sendoff with some 3,000 attendees at his funeral in...
10 de may. de 2024 · Saving the lives of the others present by knocking the apparatus apart, Dr. Louis Slotin received a fatal dose of rays. Despite every hospital treatment, he died in nine days. To aid medical science, he cooperated in making records of his case, including this chart, which strikingly shows virtual disappearance of white corpuscles ...
14 de may. de 2024 · Louis Slotin; Steven Sloman; Philip Fernbach; Frank Keil; Rebecca Lawson; Leonard Read; Thomas Landauer; Nick Chater; Podcasts, vídeos y enlaces recomendados: Metacognición; Núcleo del demonio; The Science of Cycology Rebecca Lawson; Imagen del capítulo: midjourney (prompt: YouTube thumbnail for a video about thinking)
Hace 1 día · In 1946 Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin performed a risky experiment known as "tickling the dragon's tail" which involved two hemispheres of neutron-reflective beryllium being brought together around a plutonium core to bring it to criticality.
