Richard Garwin

Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist. He is widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
Garwin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi.
In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.