Article 772A5 In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work

In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work

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Ellsworth Toohey
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On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron - the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union - when the safety mechanisms failed. He leaned over and put his head directly into the path of a 76 GeV proton beam. - Read the rest

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