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Scientist.

Born in Winnipeg’s North End on 1 December , son of Alexander Israel Slotin () and Sonia Niaslovsky (?), he attended St. John’s Technical High School and the University of Manitoba, winning the gold medal in chemistry and physics and completing an MSc in He received his PhD in biochemistry from London University in He was also an amateur boxer.

Slotin became a research associate at the University of Chicago, working on an atom-smashing cyclotron.

He began work in the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhatten Project in Chicago in , and moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico in December He became an expert at hand-assembling the core of atomic bombs, and it was an accident during the process of assembly that lead to his death.

In order to save his colleagues, he terminated a connection in a bomb core, and as a result exposed himself to a fatal dose of radiation.

He died at Sante Fe, New Mexico on 30 May and was buried in the S