"Theoretical Physicist" Kenneth Ford Hand Signed TLS For Sale
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"Theoretical Physicist" Kenneth Ford Hand Signed TLS:
$129.99
Up for sale "Theoretical Physicist" Kenneth Ford Hand Signed TLS.
ES-9785
Kenneth William Ford (born
May 1, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist, teacher, and
writer, currently residing in was the first chair of the physics department at the University of California, Irvine,
and later served as president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology (New Mexico Tech) and as Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics. Ford was
born on May 1, 1926 in West Palm Beach, Florida, to parents Paul
Hammond Ford (1892-1961) and Edith Timblin Ford (1892-1992) and was the second
of their three children. He spent most of his childhood in Kentucky, living one
year in Georgia when he was eight and nine. Ford attended Highlands High School
in Fort Thomas, Kentucky from 1940 to 1942,
then Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH,
graduating in 1944. In 1948, he received an A.B. from Harvard University, graduating summa cum
laude. He received his Ph.D. in physics
from Princeton University in 1953, studying
under John Archibald Wheeler. During 1950-1952
he interrupted his graduate studies to join the H-bomb design team at Los Alamos National Laboratory
(then Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and at Princeton University's Project Matterhorn.
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