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Rolf Peterson

PhysicistLos Alamos, NM

Scientist
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Rolf Peterson was a physicist at Los Alamos from 1943 through the end of the war. Peterson graduated from St. Olaf College in 1943 and obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the Unviersity of Wisconsin. He remained at the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war, and worked there for nearly four decades before retiring in 1984. 

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