Louis Slotin

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Manhattan Project scientist chemist human physicist

Louis Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for a fatal criticality accident during a plutonium core experiment in 1946.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Manhattan Project scientist → chemist → human → physicist →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Science → Doctor of Philosophy →
awardReceived	University of Manitoba gold medal in physics →
burialPlace	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada →
causeOfDeath	acute radiation syndrome → criticality accident →
citizenship	Canadian →
conflict	World War II →
countryOfCitizenship	Canada →
dateOfBirth	1910-12-01 →
dateOfDeath	1946-05-30 →
deathManner	accidental death →
doctoralAdvisor	Arthur John Allmand →
educatedAt	King's College London → University of Manitoba →
employer	Los Alamos Laboratory → University of Chicago →
ethnicGroup	Ashkenazi Jews →
experimentedOn	plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core" →
familyName	Slotin →
fieldOfWork	criticality experiments → nuclear physics → radiation physics →
gender	male →
givenName	Louis →
hasNationality	Canadian →
knownFor	Manhattan Project research → fatal plutonium core accident →
memberOf	Manhattan Project →
militaryBranch	United States Army →
name	Louis Slotin →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableEvent	1946 Los Alamos criticality accident →
notableWork	criticality experiments with plutonium cores →
occupation	chemist → physicist →
placeOfBirth	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada →
placeOfDeath	Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States →
religion	Judaism →
studied	chemistry → physics →
workLocation	Chicago, Illinois → Los Alamos, New Mexico →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Met Lab →	employed
Louis Slotin →	name
Montreal Laboratory →	notableScientist