Theodore Hall

Theodore Hall
Hall's ID badge photo from Los Alamos
Born	Theodore Alvin Holtzberg (1925-10-20)October 20, 1925 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	November 1, 1999(1999-11-01) (aged 74) Cambridge, England, UK
Education	Queens College Harvard University (BS) University of Chicago (MS)
Occupation	Physicist
Employer	Manhattan Project
Known for	Atomic espionage
Relatives	Edward N. Hall (brother)

Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United States efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), gave a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence.^[1]

His brother, Edward N. Hall, was a rocket scientist who led the U.S. Air Force's program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, personally designing the Minuteman missile and convincing the Pentagon and President Eisenhower to adopt it as a key part of the nation's strategic nuclear triad.^[2]