Typically the Atlantic fails to mention Ralph Merkle the actual inventor of DH. But since he was just a student who went to his professors with that concept, they published the paper. Read about it:
<a href="http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107353" rel="nofollow">http://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/107353</a>
"if you’re going to put names on it, it should be called Diffie-Hellman-Merkle key exchange, since it’s actually based on a concept of Merkle’s. We give him credit for that in the paper, but it was in a paper by Diffie and Hellman, so it’s called Diffie-Hellman key exchange."