Walter Zinn

Walter Henry Zinn ( born December 10, 1906 in Berlin, Ontario, today Kitchener (Ontario ), Canada, † 14 February 2000 in Clearwater, Florida) was a Canadian- American scientists and nuclear physicists.

His parents were German -born immigrant, Johann tin and Maria Anna Stoskopf. He studied mathematics at Queen 's University in Kingston ( Ontario), where he obtained a bachelor in 1927 and 1930, a master. In 1930 he began studying physics at Columbia University. Then he took a teaching position, and conducted research on nuclear fission, he taught in 1927 and 1928 at the Queen's University in 1931 and 1932 at Columbia University - where he used beyond even a lab - and from 1932 to 1941 at Queens College of the City University of New York. At the beginning of the Second World War he was a member of Enrico Fermi in the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. From 1946 to 1956 he was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory. Here he developed the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first practical functioning breeder reactor, which also was the first nuclear reactor to generate electricity worldwide. He then founded a consulting company for nuclear energy, where he worked until 1970. In addition, he was a consultant for Nuclear Energy of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to Richard Nixon. He is considered an important pioneer of nuclear fission for energy use.

Tin was christened on May 18, 1960 along with Alvin M. Weinberg the Atoms for Peace Award, 1969, the Enrico Fermi Award, he was awarded. After Walter Henry Zinn, awarded since 1976, the Walter H. Zinn is named prize of the American Nuclear Society, the first of which he was president. In 1957 he received an honorary doctorate D.Sc. Queen's University.

Tin in 1933 Jennie A. Smith ( † 1964), married, like he had studied at Queen 's University. In 1938 he was naturalized in the United States. In 1966 he married his second wife, Mary Teresa Pratt. He left two sons, John and Robert James Eric tin, a stepson, Warren Johnson, and nine grandchildren. Another stepson, Robert Johnson, died already in 1991.