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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/04/brilliant-yale-senior-dies-in-lab-ma
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Majorana

Where the fuck did you go Ettore?

WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU GO?

>>2944691


Her parents get her student debt.

Even in death you still serve.

>>2944764
probably he discovered some othedimensional or otherworldy passage and was taken by strange beings, who left him a few days to say his goodbye.

Jean-Francois was a teacher of physics and chemistry. In 1783 he witnessed the world’s first balloon flight which created in him a passion for flight. After assisting in the untethered flight of a sheep, a chicken, and a duck, he took the first manned free flight in a balloon. He travelled at an altitude of 3,000 feet using a hot air balloon. Not stopping there, De Rozier planned a crossing of the English Channel from France to England. Unfortunately it was his last flight; after reaching 1,500 feet in a combined hot air and gas balloon, the balloon deflated, causing him to fall to his death. His fiancee died 8 days later – possibly from suicide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#The_criticality_accident
>On May 21, 1946, with seven other colleagues watching, Slotin performed an experiment that involved the creation of one of the first steps of a fission reaction by placing two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around a plutonium core. The experiment used the same 6.2-kilogram (13.7 lb) plutonium core that had irradiated Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., later called the "Demon core" for its role in the two accidents. Slotin grasped the upper beryllium hemisphere with his left hand through a thumb hole at the top while he maintained the separation of the half-spheres using the blade of a screwdriver with his right hand, having removed the shims normally used.[2] Using a screwdriver was not a normal part of the experimental protocol.

At 3:20 p.m., the screwdriver slipped and the upper beryllium hemisphere fell, causing a "prompt critical" reaction and a burst of hard radiation.[9] At the time, the scientists in the room observed the "blue glow" of air ionization[citation needed] and felt a "heat wave". In addition, Slotin experienced a sour taste in his mouth and an intense burning sensation in his left hand.[2] Slotin instinctively jerked his left hand upward, lifting the upper beryllium hemisphere and dropping it to the floor, ending the reaction. However, he had already been exposed to a lethal dose (around 2100 rems, or 21 Sv) of neutron and gamma radiation.[14] Slotin's radiation dose was about four times the lethal dose, equivalent to the amount that he would have been exposed to by being 1500 m (4800 ft) away from the detonation of an atomic bomb.[15]

>>2945029
>2100 rems, or 21 Sv
>mfw people using these meaurements for radiation dosage to a person instead of Grays

>>2944764

Thanks for linking that, you asshole.

I've spent the past two hours on a Wiki-bender, up to Bermuda Triangle now.

>>2944780

its yale, no student debt

>>2945029
That man was an idiot and deserved to die.

>>2945384
If it weren't for people like him, you wouldn't know that.

>>2944691
>brilliant
>not adhering to standard lab procedure
lol

>>2945404
What holding those two halves with a screwdriver was extremely dangerous and he would of known that.

>>2945431
Ignore that "What" at the beginning.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Joesph Fourier
>Fourier believed that keeping the body wrapped up in blankets was beneficial to the health. He died in 1830 when he tripped and fell down the stairs at his home.

>>2945452
I laughed. Give this man a Nobel.

>>2945452
Brilliant scientists and mathematicians are sometimes huge retards.

>>2945029
I can only think of Dr Manhattan reading this.

>>2945452

>>2945465

This made me lol more, because Nobels aren't rewarded posthumously. So not only do you have to be brilliant in your field, you also have to manage to not die before the award ceremony.