Donald Hughes

About

Best remembered as a signer of the famous 1945 Franck Report, this nuclear physicist urged the United States government to abandon its plans to detonate atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II.

Before Fame

Early in his career, he worked for The Naval Ordnance Laboratory in White Oak, Maryland.

Trivia

After World War II, he worked as a nuclear science researcher at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.

Family Life

He passed away suddenly at the age of forty-five.

Associated With

Against the advice of Hughes and other signers of the Franck Report, the American government authorized the wartime use of the atomic bombs that had been developed by J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team.