"Theoretical Physicist" Kenneth Ford Hand Signed TLS Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Theoretical Physicist" Kenneth Ford Hand Signed TLS.
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Kenneth William Ford
(born May 1, 1926) is an American
theoretical physicist
, teacher, and writer, currently residing in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
. He 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
.