Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-
Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997 November 15 and 22.
Early education in Kentucky and at Phillips Exeter Academy. World War II service in Navy. College. Graduate work in theoretical nuclear physics at Princeton. David Bohm and J. A. Wheeler. Participation in the crash hydrogen bomb program. Post-doctorate at the University of Indiana. Fulbright year at Heisenberg's Institute. Research year at Los Alamos, 1957-1958. Teaching at Brandeis. Administrative positions at University of California, Irvine and New Mexico Institute of Mining Technology. Subsequent positions at the University of Maryland and biomedical start-up company. APS Education Officer, Director of American Institute of Physics, 1987-1993.
Physicist (theoretical) and writer.
Bohm, David, 1917-1992
Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Brandeis University.
Indiana University.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Princeton University.
University of California, Irvine.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Research -- 20 century.
Sound recordings lcgft
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Physicists -- Interviews. lcsh
Kozhevnikov, A. B. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA