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Geek Syndicate also remains to be seen how much of his level of intellect is himself and what he acquired from eating his brother. Recently, Oppenheimer ingested President Truman, but it’s currently unknown what sort of knowledge he gained. Fact: Harry Daghlian Image © Image Comics, 2012 bly caught in a radiation accident, but had a much different reaction. He appears as a skull floating above a hazmat suit appearing to be filled with radiation. He’s seen “feeding” on radiation in at least instance, so it may be that he needs to Daghlian has readily accepted his new life, stating that though the plutonium melted his skin and organs, it gave him something much greater: extended life. This statement implies that he enjoys some sort of immortality or prolonged life due to the radiation exposure, so he could be doing science and causing mayhem for many centuries to come. Fact: Albert Einstein Albert Einstein is easily the most recognizable of the cast of The Manhattan Projects. In our history, he’s as much known for his many, many scientific discoveries as he is for his sharp intellect and originality. He’s well known for his most famous equation “E=mc^2”, along with his theory of relativity and his discovery of the photoelectric effect. Harry Daghlian was an American physicist who was just twenty-three when he began working on the Manhattan Project. In our history, he’s little more than a footnote as he was accidentally exposed to radiation while trying to build a neutron reflector around a plutonium core and died of severe radiation poisoning on August 21, 1945, just twentyfive days after exposure. His death prompted stricter safety regulations when handling radioactive cores. Fiction: Harry Daghlian The comic book version of Daghlian was also presuma- Image Tskrn From Wikipedia Daghlian too is of a “super genius” intellect and a vital part of The Manhattan Projects. He was instrumental in the FDR AI program, making the data connection with the dead body of President Franklin Roosevelt and transferring his consciousness into the first artificial intelligence. He was also indirectly responsible for the xenocide of the alien Siill race, as his helmet was purposely cracked by another, causing his radiation to leak out and kill all the aliens present. Einstein’s actual involvement with the Manhattan Project was minimal. In 1939 he was persuaded to lend his name 23 Image Tskrn From Wikipedia do this periodically to survive in his new state.