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  • Walt Zinn
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  • Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a Canadian-born nuclear physicist with the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, is and credited with starting the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction by withdrawing a control rod from the world’s first nuclear reactor on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago.
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  • Direct
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Timeline
Appearance
  • In the Balance
Name
  • Walt Zinn
Cause of Death
  • Natural Causes
Affiliations
Occupation
  • Physicist
Death
  • 2000
Birth
  • 1906
Nationality
  • United States
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  • Walter Henry Zinn (December 10, 1906 – February 14, 2000) was a Canadian-born nuclear physicist with the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, is and credited with starting the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction by withdrawing a control rod from the world’s first nuclear reactor on December 2, 1942 at the University of Chicago.