The Man Who Survived Being Shot Through the Head By the World’s Strongest Laser

Harry K Daghnian

Daghnian was an American physicist that worked on the Manhattan project as well. He too conducted the same experiment that Slotin was conducting, and the results mirrored themselves. Daghnian died within 25 days of his exposure. Coincidentally, he and Slotin had been working with the same core, which has since been retired and nicknamed “the demon core.”

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