Joseph Ford (physicist)

Joseph Ford (18 December 1927 – 26 April 1995) was Regents' Professor of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in thermodynamics and chaos theory. [1]

Joseph Ford
Personal details
Born
Joseph Ford

(1927-12-18)December 18, 1927
Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedApril 26, 1995(1995-04-26) (aged 67)
Alma materGeorgia Tech (BS)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D)

Born in Buncomb 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. He spent two years as a research physicist at Union Carbide Corporation in Niagara Falls, New York before joining the faaaculty at the University of Miami in 1958. He was then appointed an associate professor at Georgia Tech in 1961, rising to become Regents' Professor of Physics there in 1978, a position he held until his death in 1995. [1]

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" [2]

Joseph Ford Commemorative Lectures

In 1995, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Physics established the Joseph Ford Commemorative Lecture in honor of Joe's Memory.[3]

References
  1. "OBITUARIES Joseph Ford". Physics Today. doi:10.1063/1.2808223. Retrieved 3 October 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  3. "Annual Joseph Ford Commemorative Lecture". Archived from the original on 2013-09-28.
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