Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-

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Richards (1918-2006) was a civilian physicist who worked on Project Y, part of the Manhattan Project, at Los Alamos, New Mexico.

He earned his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Rice University in 1942 and married Mildred Paddock in 1944. After the war, he became a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he helped the physics department recover after the Sterling Hall bombing, and he retired in 1988.

From the description of Oral history interview with Hugh T. Richards, 1995. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 709718703

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Atomic bomb

Atomic bomb

Atomic bomb

Atomic bomb

Gamma rays

Ion implantation

Neutrons

Nuclear energy

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Nuclear physics

Nuclear physics

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Sterling Hall Bombing, Madison, Wis., 1970

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World War, 1939-1945

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