Joseph Ford (physicist)
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|birth_place = Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
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|alma_mater = Georgia Tech (BS)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D)
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Joseph Ford (18 December 1927 – 26 April 1995) was Regents' Professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in thermodynamics and chaos theory. {{cite journal|title=OBITUARIES Joseph Ford|issue=10 |pages=88 |journal=Physics Today|date=October 1995 |volume=48 |doi=10.1063/1.2808223|last1=Uzer |first1=T. |last2=Chirikov |first2=Boris |last3=Vivaldi |first3=Franco |last4=Casati |first4=Giulio |doi-access=free }}{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Early life and education
Born in Buncombe County, North Carolina, he was awarded a BS degree by the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952 and a Ph.D in physics by Johns Hopkins University in 1956.
Career
Ford spent two years as a research physicist at Union Carbide Corporation in Niagara Falls, New York before joining the faculty at the University of Miami in 1958. He was then appointed an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1961, rising to become Regents' Professor of Physics there in 1978, a position he held until his death in 1995.
He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1989 "for pioneering contributions in classical and quantal chaos, and for fundamental and significant contributions to theory of statistical mechanics, ergodicity, and stochasticity, and chaos" {{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1989&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|publisher=APS|accessdate=3 October 2020}}
Joseph Ford Commemorative Lectures
In 1995, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics established the Joseph Ford Commemorative Lecture in honor of Ford's Memory.{{cite web | url=http://www.physics.gatech.edu/fordlecture | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928220836/http://www.physics.gatech.edu/fordlecture | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-09-28 |title=Annual Joseph Ford Commemorative Lecture }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.library.gatech.edu/archives/finding-aids/view?docId=ead/MS108-ead/MS108-ead.xml Joseph Ford Papers] - Georgia Tech Library
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=akb2FpZSGnMC&pg=PA348 The New Physics, Chapter 12] - Google Books
- [http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PHTOAD000048000010000088000001&idtype=cvips&doi=10.1063/1.2808223&prog=normal Physics Today Volume 48 Issue 10 OBITUARIES]{{dead|date=June 2020}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130928220836/http://www.physics.gatech.edu/fordlecture Annual Joseph Ford Commemorative Lecture]
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