Walter Zinn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Zinn

nuclear physicist

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1906

Place of Birth: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 14-Feb-2000

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Canada, United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was an American nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956.
He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago.
At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951.