Walter Zinn was born on December 10, 1906 in Canada, is a Physicist. Discover Walter Zinn net worth, Biography, Age, Height, Family and career updates.
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American nuclear physicist who is known as 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.
He graduated from Queen's University in 1930 and enrolled at Columbia University that same year.
He designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power in December 1951. He later moved to Florida, where he started a consulting firm, which was involved in the design and construction of pressurized water reactors.
He is the son of John Zinn and Maria Anna Stoskopf. He had an older brother named Albert. His first wife, Jean, died in 1964. In 1996, he married Mary Teresa Pratt became a stepfather to Warren and Robert Johnson.
He worked for Enrico Fermi, constructing experimental uranium lattices.
