Narrative, 1965.

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Narrative, 1965.

File includes descriptions of Ford's general background and education; the influence of John Wheeler at Princeton University and work with same at Los Alamos; Ford's thesis; his teaching at Indiana University, Brandeis University, and University of California at Irvine; and comments on research as compared to teaching.

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