Vernon W. Hughes
Vernon Willard Hughes (May 28, 1921 – March 25, 2003) 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 Sciences, Sterling Professor at Yale University, and a recipient of Rumford Prize, and a recipient of Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic Physics and  the Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics, both from the American Physical Society.

See also 
Hughes–Drever experiment

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1921 births
2003 deaths
20th-century American physicists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Kankakee, Illinois
Columbia University alumni
Yale University faculty
Yale Sterling Professors
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff