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Louis Slotin

1910 - 1946

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Louis Alexander Slotin ( SLOHT-in; 1 December 1910 – 30 May 1946) was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Manitoba, before obtaining his doctorate in physical chemistry at King's College London in 1936. Afterwards, he joined the University of Chicago as a research associate to help design a cyclotron. In 1942, Slotin was invited to participate in the Manhattan Project, and subsequently performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Slotin is the 366th most popular physicist (down from 365th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Canada (down from 100th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Canadian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Slotin ranks 366 out of 851. Before him are William Whewell, Heinrich Geißler, Henri Pitot, Duncan Haldane, Gaston Planté, and Théophile de Donder. After him are William Sturgeon, George F. R. Ellis, Wolfgang Ketterle, Karl Guthe Jansky, Jurij Vega, and Vladimir Shukhov.

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Among people born in 1910, Louis Slotin ranks 81. Before him are Dorothea Tanning, Pavel Batitsky, Barthélemy Boganda, Joy Adamson, Johan Ferrier, and Nouhak Phoumsavanh. After him are Juan Velasco Alvarado, Hideo Shinojima, Viktors Arājs, Rudolf Lange, Eero Saarinen, and Paul Bowles. Among people deceased in 1946, Louis Slotin ranks 64. Before him are Masaharu Homma, Miroslav Filipović, Hisaichi Terauchi, Alfred Stieglitz, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Per Albin Hansson. After him are Henry Bergman, Yōsuke Matsuoka, Henri Gouraud, Arthur Greiser, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann.

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Among people born in Canada, Louis Slotin ranks 104 out of 1,622. Before him are Shannon Tweed (1957), Lois Maxwell (1927), James Craig Watson (1838), Mike Myers (1963), Denis Villeneuve (1967), and G. A. Cohen (1941). After him are Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), James Randi (1928), Michael Ironside (1950), Simon Newcomb (1835), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), and Ted Kotcheff (1931).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Louis Slotin ranks 5. Before him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Willard Boyle (1924), and Jim Peebles (1935). After him are Donna Strickland (1959), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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