Arthur V. Peterson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 31-Oct-1912
Place of Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 24-Mar-2008
Profession: civil engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Arthur V. Peterson
- Arthur Vincent (Pete) Peterson (31 October 1912 – 24 March 2008) was a United States Army colonel who served as the Manhattan District's Chicago Area Engineer.
- In this capacity he was responsible for the Metallurgical Laboratory, which developed the first nuclear reactors.
- Plutonium bred in these reactors was used in the Fat Man atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki.
- He traveled to Europe before D-Day to warn General Dwight D.
- Eisenhower about the dangers of the Germans using radioactive weapons. After the war he was the chief of its Fissionable Materials Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1947 to 1953, when he left to become general manager of the new Atomic Energy Division of American Machine and Foundry, Over the following five years, he supervised the construction of 20 research reactors around the world.
- He left in 1958 to found his own consulting firm, AVP Associates.
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