Péter Zollman (Budapest, June 14[1][2] 1931[3] – Bristol, December 3, 2013) was a Hungarian-born scientist, research physicist, engineer, inventor and translator of literary works.
Dennis Gabor read a publication of his and, on the basis of it, offered him a research position in his laboratory, where he was working on the development of the flat television picture tube – he was aided in that by an invention of Zollman's, which he expounded in his doctoral thesis.
George Klein, in a study of Attila József in Pietà (ISBN 9780262111614), quoted the opening lines of the poem My Homeland as untranslatable into any other language.
"[8] It was thanks to him that the Anglophone world became acquainted with the poems of Dániel Berzsenyi, Attila József, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ágnes Nemes Nagy, Ottó Orbán, Sándor Kányádi, and István Baka, among others.
One of his most significant works is his translation of János Arany's poem The Bards of Wales, which formed the basis for the eponymous composition of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins' cantata, performed to great acclaim in the UK and Budapest.