Albert Wattenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Wattenberg

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1917

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jun-2007

Profession: physicist, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Albert Wattenberg (April 13, 1917 – June 27, 2007), was an American experimental physicist.
During World War II, he was with the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
He was a member of the team that built Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, and was one of those present on December 2, 1942, when it achieved criticality.
In July 1945, he was one of the signatories of the Szilard petition.
After the war he received his doctorate, and became a researcher at the Argonne National Laboratory from 1947 to 1950, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1951 to 1958, and at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1958 to 1986, where he pursued the mysteries of the atomic nucleus.