Frederic de Hoffmann

Frederic de Hoffmann (July 8, 1924 – October 4, 1989) was an Austrian-born American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.

[1] Before graduating, de Hoffmann was sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1944 where he assisted Edward Teller in the development of the Hydrogen bomb.

[1] After leaving Los Alamos, de Hoffmann collaborated with Hans Bethe and Silvan Schweber on a textbook called Mesons and Fields and became chairman of the Committee of Senior Reviewers of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

[1] That year he was recruited by John Jay Hopkins to found General Atomics and serve as its first president.

[1][4] This organization's purpose was to manufacture nuclear reactors for energy production, and sell them on the open market.