Background
Hughes, Vernon Willard was born on May 28, 1921 in Kankakee, Illinois, United States.
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Vernon Willard Hughes
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AB, Columbia University, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Columbia University, 1950; Master of Science, California Institute Technology, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Heidelberg, Germany, 1977.
Career
Research associate radiation laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942-1946;
instructor, lecturer in physics, Columbia University, New York City, 1949-1952;
associate professor physics, Columbia University, New York City, 1958-1959;
assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1952-1954;
from assistant professor to professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1960-1969;
associate department chairman, Yale University, New Haven, 1960-1961;
department chairman, Yale University, New Haven, 1961-1966;
Donner professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1969-1978;
Sterling professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1978-1991;
Sterling professor physics emeritus, Yale University, New Haven, since 1991. Visiting I I Rabi professor Columbia University, 1984, Adjunct Professor, since 1984. Trustee Association Universities Inc., 1962-1992, honorary trustee, since 1992.
Member Naval Research Advisory Committee, 1968-1974. Visiting professor Japan Society Promotion Society Science, 1978-1979. Visiting professor Slac Stanford (California), 1978-1979, Col France, 1981, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 1982.
Consultant Los Alamos Science Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Science Foundation, National Research Council, Department Energy, many others.
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Membership
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society. Member NAS.
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American