Background
Edward Wesley Hughes was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on March 22, 1904, the only
child of a Pennsylvania mining engineer and his wife. He attended schools in north
Pennsylvania and became interested in chemistry when he took it as an "overload" subject
in high school.
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