Vernon W. Hughes
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Vernon W. Hughes
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Vernon Willard Hughes was an American physicist specializing in research of subatomic particles. Hughes was born in Kankakee, Illinois. During World War II, he worked at the M.I.T. Radiation Lab. He earned his PhD under I. I. Rabi at Columbia University in 1950. Hughes was notable for his research of muons which showed the existence of previously undetected matter.
He was also noted for research that showed that protons have gluons and quarks.
Hughes was a member of the National Academy of Scien
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