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Harry Daghlian

1921 - 1945

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Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. (May 4, 1921 – September 15, 1945) was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II. He accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945, during a critical mass experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico and died 25 days later from the resultant radiation poisoning. Daghlian was irradiated as a result of a criticality accident that occurred when he accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg bomb core made of plutonium–gallium alloy. This core, subsequently nicknamed the "demon core", was later involved in the death of another physicist, Louis Slotin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Daghlian is the 294th most popular physicist (up from 612th in 2019), the 1,465th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,918th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Harry Daghlian ranks 294 out of 851. Before him are Joseph Plateau, Charles Wheatstone, Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, John Clauser, and Anne L'Huillier. After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Zhores Alferov, Carl von Linde, Samuel C. C. Ting, Klaus Hasselmann, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Harry Daghlian ranks 71. Before him are György Cziffra, Edgar Morin, Akio Morita, Mary Jackson, Karel Appel, and Alexandra of Yugoslavia. After him are Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Murray Bookchin, Peter Benenson, Franco Corelli, Lydia Litvyak, and Farida of Egypt. Among people deceased in 1945, Harry Daghlian ranks 82. Before him are Kiril, Prince of Preslav, Edith Frank, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Georg Elser, Josef Terboven, and Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Franz Ziereis, Plutarco Elías Calles, Hans Oster, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Mitsuru Ushijima, and Rudolf von Sebottendorf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Daghlian ranks 1,465 out of 20,380. Before him are Martin Balsam (1919), Steve Reich (1936), Jack Elam (1920), BD Wong (1960), Idina Menzel (1971), and Courteney Cox (1964). After him are George C. Scott (1927), Carl Lewis (1961), George Strait (1952), Jack Lousma (1936), Brian Dennehy (1938), and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Harry Daghlian ranks 67. Before him are John Robert Schrieffer (1931), David Gross (1941), William Daniel Phillips (1948), Ash Carter (1954), Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), and John Clauser (1942). After him are Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), Carl Wieman (1951), and Robert B. Laughlin (1950).

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