Emlyn Hughes is a physics professor at Columbia University and the Director of the K=1 Project, Center for Nuclear Studies. Over the years his research has spanned the fields of atomic, nuclear and particle physics. From 1995 until 2006, he was a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he won the Feynman Teaching Award. Today he is primarily engaged in clinical research to study lung disease (e.g. Long Covid) using polarized noble gas magnetic resonance imaging. He is also active in the study of radiological damage to Pacific islands resulting from nuclear weapons testing. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in 2019-2020. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. For the past three years, he has been teaching advanced quantum mechanics to first year physics and chemical physics PhD students.