Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-
Variant namesRichards (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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| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| creatorOf | Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-. Oral history interview with Hugh T. Richards, 1995. | Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Benenson, Walter. Response to 1988 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1988. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| referencedIn | History of physics manuscript biography collection M-R, 1901-1989, [ca. ca. 1960]-1989 (bulk) | New York State Historical Documents Inventory | |
| creatorOf | Richards, Hugh T. (Hugh Taylor), 1918-. Response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1990. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| referencedIn | American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Nuclear Physics Project. Responses to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, 1981. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library |
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| associatedWith | American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Nuclear Physics Project. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Benenson, Walter. | person |
| associatedWith | Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005. | person |
| associatedWith | Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962. | person |
| associatedWith | Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954. | person |
| associatedWith | Feynman, Richard Phillips. | person |
| associatedWith | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Manhattan Project (U.S.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Niels Bohr Library. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Rice University | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Segrè, Emilio. | person |
| associatedWith | Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. | person |
| associatedWith | University of Wisconsin | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | University of Wisconsin--Madison | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Van Ells, Mark D. (Mark David), 1962- | person |
| associatedWith | Wisconsin Veterans Museum. | corporateBody |
| Place Name | Admin Code | Country | |
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| New Mexico--Los Alamos | |||
| Wisconsin--Madison | |||
| United States | |||
| Colorado |
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| Atomic bomb |
| Atomic bomb |
| Atomic bomb |
| Atomic bomb |
| Gamma rays |
| Ion implantation |
| Neutrons |
| Nuclear energy |
| Nuclear physicists |
| Nuclear physics |
| Nuclear physics |
| Nuclear weapons information |
| Particles (Nuclear physics) |
| Polarization (Nuclear physics) |
| Quarks |
| Resonance |
| Scattering (Physics) |
| Sterling Hall Bombing, Madison, Wis., 1970 |
| Uranium |
| World War, 1939-1945 |
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Birth 1918-11-07
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