CentralNotice Anatoli Bugorski From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Anatoli Bugorski after the accident, with a red line depicting the path of the proton beam. Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski ( Russian : Анатолий Бугорский ; born 1942) is a Russian scientist who was struck by a particle accelerator beam in 1978. [ 1 ] 1 Accident 2 Aftermath 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Accident [ edit ] As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino , Bugorski worked with the largest Soviet particle accelerator , the U-70 synchrotron . [ 2 ] On 13 July 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the proton beam. Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns," but di...