North End, Winnipeg
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Winnipeg's North End is a large urban area located to the north and northwest of Downtown Winnipeg. It is bordered by the Red River on the east, the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline on the south, the
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Main Street underpass, looking south, circa 1910
Louis Slotin
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Louis Alexander Slotin was a Canadian physicist and chemist who took part in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Slotin earned both his Bachelor of Science a
North End, Winnipeg
…novelists Adele Wiseman, comedian David Steinberg, journalist Larry Zolf, politician Lloyd Axworthy, musician Burton Cummings of the Guess Who, scientist Louis Slotin, Olympian Martin Riley and NHL players Bill Mosienko and Terry Sawchuk. http://www.winnipeghomicide.org/maps.html…
Slotin's Los Alamos badge photo
Louis Slotin (left) with the Gadget bomb during the Trinity test
A re-creation of the Slotin incident. The inside hemisphere with the thumb-hole next to the demonstrator's hand is beryllium (replacing the uranium tamper of the same size in a Fat Man bomb). There is an external larger metal sphere of aluminium under it (replacing the pusher sphere in this bomb's design). The plutonium "demon core" was inside the spheres at the time of the accident and is not visible, but its dimensions are comparable with the two small half-spheres shown resting nearby.
A drawing based on the above sketch.