Hillard Bell Huntington (21 December 1910 in Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania – 17 July 1992 Troy, Rensselaer County, New York) was a physicist who (together with Eugene Wigner) first proposed, in 1935, that hydrogen could occur in a metallic state.
Huntington was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and received his bachelor's (1932), master's (1933) and doctoral (1941) degrees from Princeton University.
During World War II Huntington worked at the Radiation Lab at MIT.
[2] Some of his paintings are displayed in the Hillard B. Huntington library, named in his honor, located in the Jonsson-Rowland Science center at RPI.
RPI established the Hillard B. Huntington Award for graduate students in his honor.