National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Walter Zinn (1906-2000) was a Canadian-American nuclear physicist. Zinn was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1906 and graduated from Queens University in 1927.
Field worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
