About Peter Zimmerman
Lived 1941 – 2021 (aged 80). Peter Zimmerman was a nuclear physicist.
Peter D. Zimmerman (June 15, 1941, Portsmouth, Virginia – August 27, 2021 Washington, D. C. ) was an American nuclear physicist, arms control expert, and former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At his death, he was emeritus professor of science and security at King's College London. He retired from the college in August 2008 and was named professor emeritus on 1 September of the same year.
Biography Peter D. Zimmerman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 15 June 1941. He graduated from Stanford University in 1963 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He earned a Filosofie Licentiat degree at Lund University in 1967 and a Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1969. All degrees are in experimental nuclear and elementary particle physics.
Zimmerman was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988.
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American nuclear physicist
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