Walter Zinn date of birth:
December 10, 1906
How old was Walter Zinn when died?
93
Where was Walter Zinn born?
Kitchener, Ontario
When did Walter Zinn die?
February 14, 2000
Where did Walter Zinn die?
Safety Harbor, Florida, United States
Walter Zinn body shape:
Average
What color is Walter Zinn's hair?
Salt and Pepper
Is Walter Zinn gay or straight?
Straight
What is Walter Zinn's ethnicity?
White
What is Walter Zinn nationality?
American
What is Walter Zinn's occupation?
Physicist
Short Biography
Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a 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 is credited with initiating the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction by withdrawing a control rod from Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor 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.