Kenneth W. Ford - Quiz
  • 1. What percentage of his manuscript did the Department of Energy ask Kenneth Ford to excise from his book, Building the H Bomb?
A) Approximately ten percent
B) Exactly fifty percent
C) Approximately five percent
D) Approximately twenty percent
  • 2. What was the result of the DOE's request for Ford to excise information from his book?
A) Ford removed fifty percent of the book
B) No action was taken by the DOE
C) The book was banned from publication
D) Ford was prosecuted
  • 3. In what city did Kenneth Ford live after retiring?
A) Outside Philadelphia
B) Outside New York City
C) Outside Boston
D) Outside London
  • 4. Who was Kenneth Ford's first wife?
A) Sarah Elizabeth
B) Joanne Baumunk
C) Karin Stehnike
D) Nina Tannenwald
  • 5. On what date did Kenneth Ford die?
A) August 27, 1953
B) December 5, 2025
C) June 9, 1962
D) September 5, 2022
  • 6. How old was Kenneth Ford when he died?
A) 92
B) 89
C) 99
D) 95
  • 7. Which of these awards did Kenneth Ford win in 1944?
A) Westinghouse Science Talent Search winner
B) Distinguished Service Citation
C) NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
D) Oersted Medal
  • 8. Which book did Kenneth Ford write as a memoir about flying?
A) The First 95 Years
B) Basic Physics
C) In Love With Flying
D) The Quantum World
  • 9. Which autobiography did Kenneth Ford write with John Archibald Wheeler?
A) Building the H Bomb
B) 101 Quantum Questions
C) The World of Elementary Particles
D) Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam
  • 10. Who was Kenneth Ford's second wife?
A) Nina Tannenwald
B) Caroline Amanda Ford
C) Karin Stehnike
D) Joanne Baumunk
  • 11. What is the title of the book Kenneth Ford published in 2021?
A) The First 95 Years
B) Building the H Bomb
C) Basic Physics
D) In Love With Flying
  • 12. Which professional society was Kenneth Ford a Fellow of?
A) American Physical Society
B) The Royal Society
C) National Science Foundation
D) The Nobel Committee
  • 13. How many years of marriage did Ken and Joanne celebrate in 2022?
A) 40 years
B) 50 years
C) 60 years
D) 65 years
  • 14. Where is the AIP Office of the Director records of Kenneth Ford kept?
A) Harvard University Library
B) The Library of Congress
C) MIT Archives
D) Niels Bohr Library & Archives
  • 15. In what year did Kenneth W. Ford announce he would stop doing weapons work?
A) 1958
B) 1975
C) 1963
D) 1968
  • 16. Where did Ford announce he would stop doing weapons and secret work?
A) College Park, MD
B) Cloudcroft, NM
C) Philadelphia, PA
D) Irvine, CA
  • 17. Who did Ford co-author his first paper with in 1950?
A) David Bohm
B) John Wheeler
C) Eiichi Goto
D) Henry Kolm
  • 18. At which high school did Ford teach physics from 1995 to 1998?
A) Germantown Academy
B) Indiana University
C) University of Maryland
D) Germantown Friends School
  • 19. Which university recruited Ford in 1964 as its first physics chair?
A) University of Massachusetts Boston
B) Brandeis University
C) University of California at Irvine
D) New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  • 20. Which Nobel Prize laureate did Ford recruit to the University of California at Irvine?
A) David Bohm
B) Frederick Reines
C) John Wheeler
D) Henry Kolm
  • 21. What was the title of Ford's first book published in 1963?
A) In Love with Flying
B) The World of Elementary Particles
C) The Quantum World
D) Basic Physics
  • 22. What was the subject of the book Ford co-authored with John Wheeler, published in 1998?
A) A memoir about flying
B) Magnetic monopoles
C) John Wheeler's autobiography
D) Nuclear structure theory
  • 23. In what year did Ford retire from the American Institute of Physics?
A) 1987
B) 2004
C) 1998
D) 1993
  • 24. What was Ford's first non-academic job?
A) High-school physics teacher
B) President of Molecular Biophysics Technology
C) Education officer of the American Physical Society
D) Director of the American Institute of Physics
  • 25. What primary research field did Ford focus on?
A) Organic chemistry
B) Nuclear structure theory
C) Astrophysics
D) Molecular biology
  • 26. What was the birth date of Kenneth W. Ford?
A) May 1, 1926
B) May 1, 1924
C) December 5, 1925
D) June 1, 1926
  • 27. In what year did Kenneth W. Ford receive his Ph.D. in physics?
A) 1953
B) 1948
C) 1950
D) 1955
  • 28. Where did Ford spend most of his childhood?
A) Massachusetts
B) New Hampshire
C) Florida
D) Kentucky
  • 29. Which high school did Ford attend in Kentucky from 1940 to 1942?
A) Highlands High School
B) West Palm Beach High
C) Princeton High
D) Phillips Exeter Academy
  • 30. In what year did Ford enlist in the US Navy?
A) 1946
B) 1945
C) 1944
D) 1942
  • 31. What was the name of the computer Ford used at the National Bureau of Standards?
A) SEAC
B) UNIVAC
C) ENIAC
D) IBM CPC
  • 32. What was the predicted yield of the Mike test that Ford helped calculate?
A) 12 megatons
B) 10 megatons
C) 7 megatons
D) 5 megatons
  • 33. Who did Ford work with during his 1955–56 leave at the Max Planck Institut?
A) Abdus Salam
B) Edward Teller
C) Werner Heisenberg
D) John Wheeler
  • 34. Which scientist's change in perspective on the H-bomb was influenced by Ford's graph?
A) J. Robert Oppenheimer
B) John von Neumann
C) Stanislaw Ulam
D) Enrico Fermi
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