Armenian Inventors

ARMENIAN INVENTORS AND PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE TO HUMANITY.

Harotune "Harry" Krikor Daglian Jr.

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America’s first peacetime atom-bomb fatality

Bio

Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. (born 1921) was a physicist with the Manhattan Project who accidentally irradiated himself on August 21, 1945, during a critical-mass experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, resulting in his death 21 days later. On May 20, 2000, Daghlian was memorialized by the City of New London, Connecticut.