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