50 Years Ago, a Man Put His Head in a Particle Accelerator (on) : Here's What Happened!

In 1978, while inspecting one of the sections of a Soviet particle accelerator, physicist Anatoli Petrovitch Bougorski did not know that the instrument was still in motion. A beam of protons crossed his skull. The man suffered several injuries, but he survived (and even completed a doctorate). A particle accelerator is a [...]