Richard G. Hewlett

Richard G. Hewlett

Co-founder

Richard G. Hewlett is widely recognized for his work in the history of science and technology. He established the historical office and archives at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and served as chief historian of that agency and its successors until leaving government in 1980. Dr. Hewlett has served as historiographer for the Washington National Cathedral since 1978. He is the coauthor of The New World, 1939-1946, Atomic Shield, 1947-1952, and Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961, a three-volume history of the Atomic Energy Commission. He also coauthored Nuclear Navy, 1939-1962, a history of Admiral Rickover and the U.S. nuclear fleet. With History Associates he published Jessie Ball duPont, a biography of the prominent southern philanthropist. He has received the David D. Lloyd Prize from the Harry S Truman Library Foundation, the Distinguished Service Award from the Atomic Energy Commission, the Richard W. Leopold Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and the Henry Adams Prize and Franklin D. Roosevelt Award from the Society for History in the Federal Government. Dr. Hewlett attended Dartmouth and Bowdoin Colleges and, after serving with the U.S. Army Air Corps in China during World War II, received his MA and Ph.D. in modern history from the University of Chicago.