Peter Karter
| Peter Karter | |
|---|---|
| Born | Patayonis Karteroulis 1922 Chicago, Illinois United States |
| Died | March 30, 2010 Chicago, Illinois |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Nuclear Engineering |
| Institutions |
United States Army Corps of Engineers American Machine and Foundry |
| Alma mater |
United States Military Academy (USMA) Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
| Known for | replicable system for mixed recyclables PARR-Reactors |
| Spouse | Elizabeth B. Karter |
| Children | Trish Karter |
Peter Karter (1922–2010) was an American nuclear engineer and one of the pioneers of the modern recycling industry. He lived in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Karter was one of the leading innovators in materials recycling and the first to engineer a "replicable system for mixed recyclables."
Karter was born in Chicago, Illinois and died on March 30, 2010. He was a graduate of Morris High School (Bronx, New York) and of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and of the graduate school of engineering at Harvard University. Karter, the son of Greek immigrants, spent part of his childhood in Anavryti, Greece, but his school years in the United States.
Karter was a freshman at City College of New York when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Upon entering the Army he took a series of exams. One qualified him to be parachuted into Greece to work with the partisans. The other qualified him to be appointed to West Point where Congress had authorized an expanded Corps of Cadets to supply trained officers for a war that might prove lengthy. Karter served for a time in England before beginning West Point. He graduated with the class of 1947 and served with the Army of Occupation in Germany where he met his wife, Elizabeth Carmen Whitman, who was serving with the US Defense Department Army Special Services, a USO-like organization. The Elizabeth B. Karter Watch Rock Nature Preserve in Old Lyme is named in honor of Karter's late wife.
Karter also served in Korea, and in Corps of Engineers flood-control projects in the United States. The Army sent him to earn a M.S. in nuclear engineering and physics at Harvard. He was serving as an instructor at West Point when his term of service ended in 1957.
After leaving the Army, Karter worked as a nuclear engineer for American Machine and Foundry, helping build reactors for Pakistan and Iran under the Atoms for Peace program.
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