Donald J. Hughes
Donald J. Hughes | |
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| Born | 1915  |
| Died | 12 April 1960 (aged 44–45) |
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| Fields | Nuclear physics |
Donald James Hughes (April 2, 1915 – April 12, 1960) was an American
Before the war Hughes worked at the
barren island or desert, or to try to keep the existence of the nuclear bomb secret for as long as possible.[1][4] The advice of the "Franck Report" was not followed, however, and the U.S. dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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After the war Hughes went to Brookhaven National Laboratory and formed a group of physicists working on contemporary problems in nuclear science.[2] His work centered on the neutron. Many of his publications were translated into Russian; more copies of his work were printed in the USSR than in the USA. He also spent one year at Oxford teaching.
He wrote a popular science book, The Neutron Story, published 1959. He died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960.[2]
Other works:
- Pile Neutron Research (1953)
- Neutron Optics (1954)
- Neutron Cross Sections (1957)
- On nuclear energy: its potential for peacetime uses (1957)
- Neutron Cross Sections (A compilation which the Government Printing Office published for the second Geneva conference.)
References
- ^ a b James Franck, et al. The "Franck Report": A Report to the Secretary of War, June 1945.
- ^ ISBN 0-520-22055-2.
- ^ ISBN 0-8047-2141-6.
- ^ Minority Report by Josh Schollmeyer, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", January/February 2005 (vol. 61, no. 1), pp. 38-39.
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