Ed Vernon Hungerford III is an American physicist and one of the prominent international particle physicists. He is one of the world leaders in the field of Hypernuclear Physics with significant original research carried out in the field. Since 2011, he is MD Anderson Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Houston, where he has been leading his research group (Medium-Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics group). He is known for his significant contributions to the field of hypernuclear physics and hypernuclear spectroscopy, with more than hundred important research papers, multiple grants and more than twenty successful PhD students advised during his highly-productive career.