Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997.

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Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Ford, 1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78354822

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.

Sound recording: 6 cassettes.Transcript: 2 sessions (105 pp.)

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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