One day in Oppenheimer's Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another. In this specially illustrated story, the artist and writer Ben ...
The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb wasn't without its own dangers. Experiments on a so-called "demon core" of plutonium caused the deaths of two Manhattan Project physicists. Both ...
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Winnipeg’s ‘Dragon Tamer’: Remembering Dr. Louis Slotin, the North End physicist who died saving his colleagues
On a quiet block of Scotia Street, where red-brick homes and elm trees still line the sidewalks, a small park bears the name of one of the North End’s most gifted sons — Dr. Louis Slotin. Nearly eight ...
The facts: At 3:20 p.m. on May 21, 1946, in a government atomic-weapons lab in Los Alamos, N.M., the young Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was conducting a demonstration with plutonium for some ...
On May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin tickled the dragon’s tail once too often. Slotin, the scientist who assembled the first atom bomb before it was detonated at Alamogordo, N.M., and who was dubbed by his ...
The Hollywood blockbuster film Oppenheimer is exploding in theatres with sellouts and enthusiastic reviews, but a Winnipeg connection has remained behind the curtain. The film chronicles the life of ...
Presented by The Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 W. 52 St., NYC, April 9-29. "Neutrons are like clumsy ghosts," muses physicist and ...
Science certainly isn't short of drama. But filmmakers and playwrights often duck out when it comes to showing science as it really is. They tend to prefer a cartoon version that rarely bears much ...
In 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, the physicist Louis Slotin stood in front of a low table at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, concentrating intensely on the object in front of him.
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