>>10855908>>10856721Louis Slotin:
>>10854019He was a badass Canadian chemist and physicist who did research and built massive bombs at Los Alamos.
He did crazy shit that wouldn't be allowed today and probably wasn't allowed then -- like diving into the water of a nuclear reactor to repair a failing instrument...underwater...while the rector was operating.
One day, he was fucking around with the Demon Core, caused an uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction, and died 9 days later.
Critical assembly was restricted to remote-control after that, and was never done by hand again.
He was buddies with Fermi and Eugene Wigner.
He was played by John Cusak in Fat Man & Little Boy, there have been poems and plays written about him.
Women wanted to be with him, men wanted to be like him, that kind of guy.
