Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski (Russian: A?a?o??? ?e?po??? ?y?opc???) is alleged to have survived an accident in 1978, when a high-energy proton beam from a particle accelerator passed through his brain.
The oldest source written in English which I can find for this claim is here: https://www.wired.com/1997/12/science-2/
Written for Wired by Masha Gessen in 1997, in a love letter to Russian Science Towns. I will summarize the section which involves the story in two parts.
Event
>The Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, 1978
>Bugorski, a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned.
>Stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and...
>saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns
>felt no pain
>a proton beam entered his skull
>Measured about 200,000 rads to 300,000 rads
The oldest source written in English which I can find for this claim is here: https://www.wired.com/1997/12/science-2/
Written for Wired by Masha Gessen in 1997, in a love letter to Russian Science Towns. I will summarize the section which involves the story in two parts.
Event
>The Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, 1978
>Bugorski, a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned.
>Stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and...
>saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns
>felt no pain
>a proton beam entered his skull
>Measured about 200,000 rads to 300,000 rads
