Armenians

THEIR GROUNDBREAKING CONTRIBUTIONS REFLECT A LEGACY OF INNOVATION THAT CONTINUES TO INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS

Harotune "Harry" Krikor Daghlian Jr.

Brilliant researcher dedicated to nuclear science advancement

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.