Claude Hudgens

ScientistChicago, IL

Dayton, OH

Scientist

Listen to Claude Hudgens’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Claude Hudgens was born in 1921. In June, 1952, Hudgens joined and began work at Mound Laboratory.

Claude Hudgens’s Timeline

1921 Jul 4th Born.

1952 Joined Mound Laboratory.

2006 Passed away in Dayton, OH.

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