EVENT

Received an unintentional (or unintentionally large) dose of radiation.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Marie Curie	Chemist	7-Nov-1867	4-Jul-1934	Early nuclear chemist
Harry K. Daghlian	Physicist	4-May-1921	15-Sep-1945	Casualty of the Manhattan Project
Irène Joliot-Curie	Physicist	12-Sep-1897	17-Mar-1956	Artificial radioactivity
Karen Silkwood	Victim	19-Feb-1946	13-Nov-1974	Nuclear whistleblower
Louis Slotin	Physicist	1-Dec-1910	30-May-1946	Died tickling the dragon's tail

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