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Harry K. Daghlian, Jr.

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1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921-1945)

United StatesScientistsLived 1921 to 1945 · aged 24
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Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. was an American physicist with the Manhattan Project, which designed and produced the atomic bombs that were used in World War II.

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Herbert Lehr (left) and Harry Daghlian Jr. (right), loading the assembled tamper plug containing the plutonium pit and initiator into a car for transport from the McDonald ranch house to the shot tower on July 13, 1945.Herbert Lehr (left) and Harry Daghlian Jr. (right), loading the assembled tamper plug containing the plutonium pit and initiator into a car for transport from the McDonald ranch house to the shot tower on July 13, 1945.

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Haroutune Krikor Daghlian Jr. 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.

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United States
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Lived 1921 to 1945 · aged 24
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