Walter Zinn
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Walter Zinn
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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
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Nuclear physicist (1906–2000)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Zinn
date created:
2006-12-10T21:42:53Z
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2024-09-09T20:41:04Z
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