Donald J. Hughes

Donald J. Hughes (April 2, 1915 – April 12, 1960) was an American nuclear physicist, chiefly notable as one of the signers off the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II. He wrote a popular science book, The Neutron Story, published 1959. Hughes died suddenly in 1960.

Donald J. Hughes

Donald J. Hughes (April 2, 1915 – April 12, 1960) was an American nuclear physicist, chiefly notable as one of the signers off the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II. He wrote a popular science book, The Neutron Story, published 1959. Hughes died suddenly in 1960.