Harry Daghlian was an American physicist who is best known for his accidental death in 1945 due to a radiation incident at the Los Alamos National Laboratory while working on the Manhattan Project. Daghlian was involved in experiments related to critical mass and nuclear reactions. On August 21, 1945, during a demonstration of a neutron reflection experiment with a plutonium core and tungsten carbide bricks, Daghlian accidentally caused a criticality accident.
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