Walter Zinn
Nuclear physicist
Born on: December 10, 1906Died on: February 14, 2000
Aged: 93 years 66 days (1118 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Canada
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Walter Henry Zinn was a Canadian-born 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 electrically power a building, which went live on December 20, 1951.
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