Arthur Llewelyn Hughes

Arthur L. Hughes, 1883-1978 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Excerpt from "Still a Scientist at the Age of 81". By William Woo. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 20, 1965) [Arthur Llewelyn] Hughes came to Washington University in 1923 to succeed Arthur Holly Compton as head of the physics department, and it was in the ensuing years of his chairmanship that the department, for all purposes, crossed the threshold into modern physics. There were two reasons for this, and for one of them neither Hughes nor …