What is Richard G. Hewlett?
[[File:Richard G. Hewlett.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Richard G. Hewlett, posing with the Bush-Conant file on the development of the atomic bomb (1958).]] '''Richard Greening Hewlett''' (February 12, 1923 &ndash; September 1, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Public history|public]] [[historian]]. He was best known for his work as the first official Chief Historian of the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]] (AEC). Hewlett was born in [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]], [[Ohio]]. He joined the [[United States Army Air Corps]] during [[World War II]] after the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] in 1941. Hewlett died on September 1, 2015 at the age of 92.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/09/08/in-memoriam-richard-hewlett/|title=In Memoriam: Richard G. Hewlett (1923-2015)|work=Restricted Data|date=September 8, 2015|access-date=September 10, 2015|author=Wellerstein, Alex}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hewlett, Richard G.}} [[Category:1923 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:American military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Harvard University alumni]] [[Category:Military people from Ohio]] [[Category:People from Toledo, Ohio]] [[Category:Scientists from Ohio]] [[Category:University of Chicago alumni]] {{US-bio-stub}}