Jeff Hughes

Jeff Hughes was an historian of science based at the University of Manchester who researched physics, nuclear culture and scientific communities.

Early life Jeffrey Alan Hughes was born in 1965 in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire.

Education Hughes studied at Maesydderwen Comprehensive School in Ystradgynlais before attending Jesus College, Oxford as a chemistry undergraduate. He then went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge as a postgraduate and moved into the study of history of science.

Career

Hughes was one of the first permanent members of staff at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester, where he began work in 1993. His research concerned the political implications of nuclear research and the interactions of scientists with government departments. He was awarded the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize by the History of Science Society in 2004 for his book The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb. 'What is British nuclear culture? Understanding Uranium 235', British Journal for the History of Science. The Manhattan Project and the Birth of Big Science. Radioactivists: community, controversy and the rise of nuclear physics.