Kenneth William Ford

I am a physicist-turned-writer, retired from the American Institute of Physics and from a career that included teaching at both university and high-school levels. My most recent book is The First 95 Years (2021), a set of idiosyncratic essays on my life up to my 95th birthday (05/01/21). My last "serious" book is Building the H Bomb: A Personal History (2015). It is based on my own participation in the development of the first H bomb. Other books on physics include The Quantum World (paperback in 2005) and 101 Quantum Questions (2011, paperback in 2012). I have also written about my lifetime passion of flying light planes and gliders in a memoir, In Love with Flying (2007; see www.HBarPress.com/). I live with my wife Joanne near Philadelphia.