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	Louis_Slotin LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Slotin grasped the upper beryllium hemisphere with his left hand through a thumb hole at the top while he maintained the separation of the half-spheres by a blade of a screwdriver with his right hand, having removed the shims normally used.
		Slotin's colleagues rushed him to hospital but Slotin was aware of his condition and, realizing he would die, is said to have remarked: "You'll be OK, but I think I'm done for." His parents were informed and a number of volunteers wanted to donate blood but the efforts proved futile.
		Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg on June 2, 1946 (though not in a lead coffin, as was later rumored).
	language.school-explorer.com /info/Louis_Slotin (1225 words)

	Louis Slotin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Slotin was born December 1, 1910 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the family of Israel and Sonia Slotin, Yiddish-speaking refugees from Russia.
		Slotin's colleagues rushed him to hospital but Slotin was aware of his condition and, realizing he would die, is said to have remarked: "You'll be OK, but I think I'm done for." His parents were informed and a number of volunteers wanted to donate blood but the efforts proved futile.
		Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg on June 2, 1946 (though not in a lead coffin, as was later rumored).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Slotin (856 words)

	Louis Slotin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Slotin's colleagues rushed him to hospital but Slotin was aware of his condition and realizing he would die is said to have remarked: "You'll be OK, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg on June 2, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Slotin's colleagues at Los Alamos and the University of Chicago initiated the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund for lectures on physics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_slotin.htm (1991 words)

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		Louis Slotin in New Mexico, in 1945, "armouring" the first atomic bomb, a procedure nicknamed "tickling the dragon's tail." Sloting at the time was on the edge of death's abyss.
		Slotin’s expertise in these experiments proved that he had the ability, the patience, and the courage to accept the responsibility of completing the critical assembly for the first experimental atomic bomb.
		Slotin had hoped that he might be permitted to go with the first bombs to the island of Trinian from which the flights for the atomic bombing were to take off.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/252-255.htm (1107 words)

	Bambooweb: Louis Slotin
		Louis Slotin was born December 1 1910 in Winnipeg, Canada, to a family of Israel and Sonia Slotin, Yiddish-speaking refugees from Russia.
		Slotin's instant reaction was to separate the masses by hand, by flipping the upper one on the floor.
		Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg June 2 1946 (thought not in lead coffin, as was later rumored).
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/l/o/Louis_Slotin.html (609 words)

	Louis P. Slotin - 1 of 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Slotin had initially sent them a telegram and then, Morrison recalled, "with a nurse holding the receiver, he telephoned his family to tell them he had been in an accident, that he would be in hospital for a time.
		The plane was met at the airport by Louis Slotin's brother Samuel, members of the family, friends and the undertaker who transported the body to the Chesed Shel Emes (House of Truth) Chapel on Main Street.
		Slotin was being driven up here from Albuquerque after arriving by air, he explained why he had felt it necessary to come and why he was so much concerned.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /FH/LA/Louis_Slotin_1.htm (1179 words)

	Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism - Historic Resources
		Slotin was responsible for building the triggering device on the first atomic bomb, code-named "Trinity", which was detonated in the New Mexico desert.
		Slotin knew that through his atomic research he was assisting in creating a weapon of mass destruction, but reasoned that it was necessary to defeat the Axis powers and to preserve freedom and democracy from totalitarian threats.
		Slotin was commemorated by the City of Winnipeg in 1993, when a park on Luxton Avenue in north Winnipeg was named after him, and by the International Astronomical Union, which named Asteroid 12423 "Slotin" in 2002.
	www.gov.mb.ca /chc/hrb/events/famous_manitobans/slotin_l.html (672 words)

	Louis Slotin - TheBestLinks.com - Beryllium, Canada, Chemist, Los Alamos, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louis Slotin (1910-1946) was a Canadian-born physicist/chemist who took part on the Manhattan Project.
		Slotin's colleagues rushed him into hospital but Slotin was aware of his condition.
		Louis Slotin was buried in Winnipeg June 2 1946 (thought not in lead coffin, as was later rumored).
	www.thebestlinks.com /Louis_Slotin.html (675 words)

	List of military nuclear accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sketch of Louis Slotin's criticality accident used to determine exposure of those in the room at the time.
		May 21, 1946 – Canadian physicist Louis Slotin manually assembled a critical mass of plutonium while demonstrating his technique to visiting scientists at Los Alamos, causing a fatal criticality accident.
		Slotin died on May 30 from massive radiation poisoning, with an estimated dose of 1000 rads (rad), or 10 grays (Gy).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents (3736 words)

	ipedia.com: Louis Slotin Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Louis Slotin was born December 1 1910 in...
		Louis Slotin (1910-1946) was a Canadian-born nuclear scientist who took part on the Manhattan Project.
		Louis Slotin was born December 1 1910 in Winnibeg, Canada, to a family of Israel and Sonia Slotin, Yiddish-speaking refugees from Russia.
	www.ipedia.com /louis_slotin.html (689 words)

	Louis P. Slotin - 1 of 3
		Slotin had initially sent them a telegram and then, Morrison recalled, "with a nurse holding the receiver, he telephoned his family to tell them he had been in an accident, that he would be in hospital for a time.
		The plane was met at the airport by Louis Slotin's brother Samuel, members of the family, friends and the undertaker who transported the body to the Chesed Shel Emes (House of Truth) Chapel on Main Street.
		Slotin was being driven up here from Albuquerque after arriving by air, he explained why he had felt it necessary to come and why he was so much concerned.
	www.mphpa.org /classic/FH/LA/Louis_Slotin_1.htm (1179 words)

	L. Slotin
		Louis Slotin, and Louis Alexander Slotin: 1910-1946 Selfless Hero of the Manhattan Project.
		Thus Slotin removed the shims and attempted to maintain the separation with a screwdriver blade - the use of a screwdriver was never part of the standard procedure.
		Slotin's left thumb was in the polar hole of the upper Be shell and, in a knee-jerk reaction, he raised his left arm and let the shell fall to the floor.
	www.cns-snc.ca /history/pioneers/slotin/slotin.html (1317 words)

	Louis P. Slotin - 3 of 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bob Stewart, a friend and former assistant of Louis Slotin's at Oak Ridge, expressed a sentiment shared by many: "Louis was a source of inspiration to all of us he would always insist upon taking the greatest risk himself.
		The Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund was initiated in 1948 by Slotin's colleagues at Los Alamos and the University of Chicago.
		I gather from the comments I have heard regarding the Slotin affair that he himself was guilty of negligence and that the absence of automatic safeguards was in large measure due to Slotin's insistence that they were not necessary.
	www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /FH/LA/Louis_Slotin_3.htm (1283 words)

	Louis Slotin Sonata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At 3:20 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 1946 Louis Slotin's hand slipped-- a small, practically insignificant blunder, except that Slotin was the chief -bomb builder at Los Alamos, and at that fateful moment he held in his hands a plutonium bomb core named "Rufus".
		Slotin and others saw a blue glow and felt a momentary flux of heat on their faces.
		Slotin flung the shell to the floor but it was too late.
	www.paulmullin.org /Slotin%20Sonata.htm (324 words)

	the radioactive : home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On May 12, 1946, Louis Slotin, a scientist working on the Manhattan Project, was conducting an experiment called "Tickling the Dragon's Tail." This experiment had the scientist see how close he could bring two hemispheres of beryllium-coated plutonium together with their bare hands, using only a screwdriver to keep the highly reactive masses apart.
		Slotin's screwdriver slipped, the beryllium-coated plutonium hemispheres came in contact, and a blue glow and wave of heat engulfed the room.
		Louis Slotin died nine agonizing days later, and his body was returned to his hometown of Winnipeg in a lead coffin.
	www.theradioactive.com (146 words)

	Military.com Content
		On May 21, 1946, Dr. Louis Slotin suffered a fatal dose of radiation while he demonstrated the technique of critical assembly and associated studies and measurements to another scientist.
		Louis Slotin visits his neice during a family vacation in the early '40s.
		Slotin was one of the 51 witnesses at Enrico Fermis "atomic pile" and later helped calculate critical mass for atomic triggers as part of the Manhattan Project.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent1/?file=cw_nuclear_slotin (543 words)

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		In May of 1946 Dr. Louis Slotin, a Manhattan Project scientist, died of severe radiation sickness caused by plutonium.
		Slotin was engaged in an experiment called tickling the dragon's tail in which two beryllium-coated plutonium hemispheres were brought together in close proximity.
		Slotin was holding the top hemisphere with his left hand when the screw driver separating them slipped.
	www.mikedaisey.com /2004/02/in-may-of-1946-dr.sht (154 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Louis Slotin
		Louis Slotin was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
		Slotin pushed the globes apart with his bare hands to stop the reaction.
		By separating the globes, Slotin subjected himself to a lethal dose of the radiation.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_slotkin-louis.htm (112 words)

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		And absurdity was in fact the counterpoint for the evening, especially during the "development section" comprised mostly of dreams and halucinations by the dying Slotin.
		Slotin is all, much as supposedly the dreamer is all characters in his dream.
		Her eventual pronouncement to Slotin that he simply did not have a white blood cell count anymore would then have been heartbreaking instead of just another glaring breach of medical ethics by an emotional female.
	www.artzine.org /reviews/slotin.htm (843 words)

	Louis Slotin Memorial
		This park is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Louis Slotin who willingly and heroically laid down his life to save seven fellow scientists during an experiment May 21, 1946 at the Los Alamos atomic research project in New Mexico, USA.
		Slotin was taken to hospital where he died nine days later.
		Slotin and his family had resided at 125 Scotia Street, just a short walk north of this park.
	www.mphpa.org /classic/FH/LA/Slotin_Memorial.htm (123 words)

	CBC News - Viewpoint: Thomas Rose
		Slotin and the others were in a race to develop an atomic bomb before Hitler could.
		Nearly a year after the bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and three years after the Dene became uranium transporters for the Canadian government, Louis Slotin was in his lab performing a routine but dangerous procedure when a mishap occurred.
		An instrument slipped and Slotin was exposed to a massive and fatal dose of radiation.
	www.cbc.ca /news/viewpoint/vp_rose/20050805.html (1042 words)

	Louis Slotin Sonata - Act I, Section 6@Everything2.com
		SLOTIN: We didn't "move toward it", I mean, not like that, not like it was some primitive tribal altar.
		So Slotin comes back a few hours later, strips to his skivvies, puts on some swimming goggles, and dives to the bottom of the tank, makes his calibrations under water.
		Slotin then set the safety spacers, two wooden blocks, on the rim of the bottom shell.
	www.everything2.org /index.pl?node_id=1475494 (1135 words)

	Seattlest: Like Ghost, But Much Hotter: Louis Slotin's Sonata
		Louis Slotin Sonata at Empty Space Theatre tracks the workings of the mind of real-life physicist Louis Slotin, and the results of a particularly unlucky screwdriver twist.
		On Tuesday afternoon, May 21, 1946, Slotin was performing a dangerous test in his Pajarito Canyon lab, "tickling the tail of the dragon," as Richard Feynman had put it, and things went pear-shaped.
		Seattle playwright Paul Mullin has a lot cooking on the plutonium rangetop here: Louis Slotin (played to '40s cowboy-scientist perfection by Paul Morgan Stetler, despite against-type casting) has a lot of life to review while his body deteriorates, but the play is also deeply invested in assembling the post-war "time-space" out of fragments.
	www.seattlest.com /archives/2006/09/22/like_ghost_but_much_hotter_louis_slotins_sonata.php (688 words)

	Damn Interesting » Bitten by the Nuclear Dragon
		Louis Slotin's experiment of May 21, 1946 didn't involve such neutron reflecting bricks, but it did utilize the same plutonium cores as Daghlian's experiment, and it was similarly ill-fated.
		Louis Slotin is generally regarded as a hero for his quick action, and his sacrifice was indeed selfless and heroic.
		Slotin's quick reaction at the immediate risk of his own life prevented a more serious development of the experiment which would certainly have resulted in the death of the seven men working with him, as well as serious injury to others in the general vicinity.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=102 (4438 words)

	science.ca Profile : Louis Slotin
		His expertise drew the attention of scientists working for the US government, and Slotin was invited to join the select group working on the Manhattan Project, with the goal of beating the Nazis at building an atomic bomb.
		In 1948, Slotin's colleagues at Los Alamos and the University of Chicago created the Louis A. Slotin Memorial Fund which provided for a lecture series by distinguished men of science as Robert Oppenheimer, scientific head of the Manhattan Project, and Nobel Laureates Luis W. Alvarez and Hans A. Bethe.
		Slotin's story has been told in the play "Louis Slotin Sonata," written by Paul Mullin in 2001, and the documentary "Tickling the Dragon's Tail," released in 1999.
	www.science.ca /scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=290 (524 words)

	JK - Portrety Kanadyjczyków
		Louis Slotin przeprowadzał wyjątkowo niebezpieczny eksperyment, nazywany przez kolegów z zespołu przewrotną nazwą "pociąganie tygrysa za ogon".
		Licznik Geigera zaterkotał jak szalony, a dr Louis Slotin wiedział, że jest to dla niego wyrok śmierci.
		Dr Louis Slotin natychmiast zrzucił jedną półkulę plutonu z drugiej, ale natychmiastowa jonizacja powietrza oznaczała, że salę przeszyło śmiercionośne promieniowanie gamma i neutronowe.
	www.jkozak.ca /jacek_kozak/text/portrety/port32.htm (1004 words)

	Thesis on A paragraph about Louis Slotin and his life.
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		Louis Slotin Louis Slotin was one of the Canadian scientists working on the Manhattan project.
		His body was flown back to Winnipeg in a Lead coffin and under the orders of the US military, it was not to be opened.
	www.emailessay.com /paper/A_paragraph_about_Louis_Slotin-151146.html (221 words)

	No Harmful side effects KIT and Rachel Chapman @Platform 2, July/August 2000
		Winnipeg-born Slotin, a brilliant nuclear scientist, was working at the University of Chicago when he was asked to join a group of scientists experimenting with nuclear fission.
		Louis Slotin's specialty was "tickling the dragon's tail," bringing together two hemispheres of plutonium and uranium as critically close as possible without starting a chain reaction.
		Slotin's life came to a tragic end at the age of 35 following exposure to a lethal dose of radiation.
	www.olinda.com /Writings/harmful.htm (2112 words)

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