Charles A. Hughes where they played in the National Hockey League as the Detroit Cougars. In 1927, on the advice of NHL President Frank Calder, Hughes hired Jack Adams as coach and general manager of the team. Adams would stay on as GM of the Cougars, later Falcons and Red Wings, until 1963. History of the Detroit Red Wings Charles A. Hughes Charles A. Hughes was a Detroit businessman and ice hockey executive. He was one of the founders of the Detroit Cougars of the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1926. The team would later change its name to the Falcons, and then
Trotter Prize (Texas A&M) notion of intelligent design William A. Dembski shared the award in 2005 with theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman. Simon Conway Morris received the award and spoke in 2007. Francis Collins, the director of the human genome project, and Steven Weinberg, a Nobel Prize recipient for physics, shared the Trotter Prize in 2008 and discussed the interplay between science and religion. Astronomer and historian of science Owen Gingerich also won the prize. Robert L. Park has criticized the award for being given to William A. Dembski, proponent of the concept of intelligent design, saying it is given out for "overlapping the magisteria"